Ezekiel 40:2

visions of God ch. Ezekiel 1:1; Ezekiel 8:3; Ezekiel 11:24.

a very high mountain The site is the ancient hill of Zion, but it is now exalted above the hills, Isaiah 2:2; Zechariah 14:10, cf. Ezekiel 17:22; Ezekiel 20:40.

by which … frame of a city lit. upon which was as it were a building of a city, i.e. a city-like, or, citadel-like building. The ref. is to the Temple, with its complex of buildings (Ezekiel 40:3).

on the south The pre-exile Temple at any rate occupied the southern slope of the hill, and possibly Ezek. recalls this. For "on the south" LXX. read frontingme (neged for negeb).