Ezekiel 43:17
And the ledge shall be fourteen [cubits] long by fourteen broad in the four sides of it. And the border about it shall be half a cubit, and the bottom of it shall be a cubit round about. And the steps of it shall look toward the ea
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
16And the altar hearth shall be twelve [cubits] long by twelve broad, square in the four sides of it.
Cross References
Exodus 25:25And thou shall make to it a border of a handbreadth round about, and thou shall make a golden crown to the border of it round about.
1 Kings 6:8The door for the middle side-chambers was in the right side of the house. And they went up by winding stairs into the middle [story], and out of the middle into the third.
Nehemiah 9:4Then Jeshua, and Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, [and] Chenani, stood up upon the stairs of the Levites, and cried with a loud voice to LORD their God.
Ezekiel 40:6Then he came to the gate which looks toward the east, and went up the steps of it. And he measured the threshold of the gate, one reed broad, and the other threshold, one reed broad.
Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 43:14-27
The Vision of the Temple. ( b. c. 574.) 13 And these are the measures of the altar after the cubits: The cubit is a cubit and a hand breadth; even the bottom shall be a cubit, and the breadth a cubit, and the border thereof by the edge thereof round about shall be a span: and this shall be the higher place of the altar. 14 And from the bottom upon the ground even to the lower settle shall be two cubits, and the breadth one cubit; and from the lesser settle even to the greater settle shall be four cubits, and the… Read the whole commentary →