Ezekiel 43:17
And the shelf is fourteen cubits long and fourteen cubits wide, on its four sides; the edge round it is half a cubit; the base of it is a cubit all round, and its steps are facing the east.
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16And the fireplace is twelve cubits long and twelve cubits wide, square on its four sides.
Cross References
Exodus 25:25And make a frame all round it, as wide as a man's hand, with a gold edge to the frame.
1 Kings 6:8The door to the lowest side rooms was in the right side of the house; and they went up by twisting steps into the middle rooms, and from the middle into the third.
Nehemiah 9:4Then Jeshua, and Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Chenani took their places on the steps of the Levites, crying in a loud voice to the Lord their God.
Ezekiel 40:6Then he came to the doorway looking to the east, and went up by its steps; and he took the measure of the doorstep, one rod wide.
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 →