Ezekiel 43:16

And the upper surface of the altar shall be twelve cubits long, by twelve broad, square on its four sides.

Leeser Tanakh

In The King James Version

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

In Context

15And the upper portion of the altar shall be four cubits; and from the upper surface of the altar and upward shall be the four horns.

17And the projection shall be fourteen cubits in length, by fourteen in breadth on its four sides; and the border round about it shall be half a cubit; and its bottom shall be a cubit round about; and its steps shall look toward the east.

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Cross References

Exodus 27:1And thou shalt make the altar of shittim wood: five cubits long, and five cubits broad, a foursquare shall the altar be, and three cubits shall be its height.

2 Chronicles 4:1He made also an altar of copper, twenty cubits being its length, and twenty cubits its breadth, and ten cubits its height.

Isaiah 29:1Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the town where David dwelt! add ye year to year; let the festivals come round in order;

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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