Ezekiel 43:1
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New International Version (©2011)
Then the man brought me to the gate facing east,

New Living Translation (©2007)
After this, the man brought me back around to the east gateway.

English Standard Version (©2001)
Then he led me to the gate, the gate facing east.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Then he led me to the gate, the gate facing toward the east;

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Afterward he brought me to the gate, even the gate that looketh toward the east:

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
He led me to the gate, the one that faces east,

International Standard Version (©2012)
Next, he brought me to the east-facing gate,

NET Bible (©2006)
Then he brought me to the gate that faced toward the east.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Then the man took me to the east gate.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Afterward he brought me to the gate, even the gate that looks toward the east:

American King James Version
Afterward he brought me to the gate, even the gate that looks toward the east:

American Standard Version
Afterward he brought me to the gate, even the gate that looketh toward the east.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he brought me to the gate that looked towards the east.

Darby Bible Translation
And he brought me unto the gate, the gate which looked toward the east.

English Revised Version
Afterward he brought me to the gate, even the gate that looketh toward the east:

Webster's Bible Translation
Afterward he brought me to the gate, even the gate that looketh towards the east:

World English Bible
Afterward he brought me to the gate, even the gate that looks toward the east.

Young's Literal Translation
And he causeth me to go to the gate, the gate that is looking eastward.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

43:1-27 After Ezekiel had surveyed the temple of God, he had a vision of the glory of God. When Christ crucified, and the things freely given to us of God, through Him, are shown to us by the Holy Ghost, they make us ashamed for our sins. This frame of mind prepares us for fuller discoveries of the mysteries of redeeming love; and the whole of the Scriptures should be opened and applied, that men may see their sins, and repent of them. We are not now to offer any atoning sacrifices, for by one offering Christ has perfected for ever those that are sanctified, Heb 10:14; but the sprinkling of his blood is needful in all our approaches to God the Father. Our best services can be accepted only as sprinkled with the blood which cleanses from all sin.

Pulpit Commentary

Verses 1-12. - The consecration of the temple by the entrance into it of the glory of the God of Israel. Verse 1. - Afterward, etc. Having completed the survey of the temple precincts (Ezekiel 42:15-20), the prophet's guide, "the measuring man," conducted him back to the gate that looked towards the east, i.e. to the gate leading into the outer court from the east (see on Ezekiel 40:6), perhaps because this was the principal entrance to the sanctuary, but chiefly because through it the impending theophany was to pass.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Afterward he brought me to the gate,.... The dimensions of this wonderful building being finished, the prophet's divine guide brought him from the wall about it, he had last measured, to the gate he first had him to, after he had observed to him the same wall, Ezekiel 40:5,

even the gate that looketh toward the east; or, as the Targum, which was open to the way of the east. The reason of his being brought hither follows.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

CHAPTER 43

Eze 43:1-27. Jehovah's Return to the Temple.

Everything was now ready for His reception. As the Shekinah glory was the peculiar distinction of the old temple, so it was to be in the new in a degree as much more transcendent as the proportions of the new exceeded those of the old. The fact that the Shekinah glory was not in the second temple proves that it cannot be that temple which is meant in the prophecy.

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The Lord's Glory Returns to the Temple
1Afterward he brought me to the gate, even the gate that looks toward the east: 2And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the east: and his voice was like a noise of many waters: and the earth shined with his glory. 3And it was according to the appearance of the vision which I saw, even according to the vision that I saw when I came to destroy the city: and the visions were like the vision that I saw by the river Chebar; and I fell on my face. …

Ezekiel 10:19 While I watched, the cherubim spread their wings and rose from the ground, and as they went, the wheels went with them. They stopped at the entrance of the east gate of the LORD's house, and the glory of the God of Israel was above them.
Ezekiel 40:6 Then he went to the east gate. He climbed its steps and measured the threshold of the gate; it was one rod deep.
Ezekiel 42:15 When he had finished measuring what was inside the temple area, he led me out by the east gate and measured the area all around:
Ezekiel 43:4 The glory of the LORD entered the temple through the gate facing east.
Ezekiel 44:1 Then the man brought me back to the outer gate of the sanctuary, the one facing east, and it was shut.
Ezekiel 46:1 "'This is what the Sovereign LORD says: The gate of the inner court facing east is to be shut on the six working days, but on the Sabbath day and on the day of the New Moon it is to be opened.