Ezekiel 43:16

The altar hearth shall be square at its four corners, twelve cubits long and twelve cubits wide.

Berean Standard Bible

In The King James Version

And the altar shall be twelve cubits long, twelve broad, square in the four squares thereof.

In Context

15The altar hearth shall be four cubits high, and four horns shall project upward from the hearth.

17The ledge shall also be square, fourteen cubits long and fourteen cubits wide, with a rim of half a cubit and a gutter of a cubit all around it. The steps of the altar shall face east.”

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Cross References

Exodus 27:1“You are to build an altar of acacia wood. The altar must be square, five cubits long, five cubits wide, and three cubits high.

2 Chronicles 4:1He made a bronze altar twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and ten cubits high.

Isaiah 29:1Woe to you, O Ariel, the city of Ariel where David camped! Year upon year let your festivals recur.

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 →

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