Ezekiel 43:16

The altar hearth shall be twelve cubits long by twelve wide, square in its four sides.

World English 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 upper altar shall be four cubits; and from the altar hearth and upward there shall be four horns.

17The ledge shall be fourteen cubits long by fourteen wide in its four sides; and the border about it shall be half a cubit; and its bottom shall be a cubit around; and its steps shall look toward the east.”

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Cross References

Exodus 27:1“You shall make the altar of acacia wood, five cubits long, and five cubits wide. The altar shall be square. Its height shall be three cubits.

2 Chronicles 4:1Then he made an altar of bronze, twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and ten cubits high.

Isaiah 29:1Woe to Ariel! Ariel, the city where David encamped! Add year to year; let the feasts come around;

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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