Ezekiel 43:12
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New International Version (©2011)
"This is the law of the temple: All the surrounding area on top of the mountain will be most holy. Such is the law of the temple.

New Living Translation (©2007)
And this is the basic law of the Temple: absolute holiness! The entire top of the mountain where the Temple is built is holy. Yes, this is the basic law of the Temple.

English Standard Version (©2001)
This is the law of the temple: the whole territory on the top of the mountain all around shall be most holy. Behold, this is the law of the temple.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"This is the law of the house: its entire area on the top of the mountain all around shall be most holy. Behold, this is the law of the house.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
This is the law of the house; Upon the top of the mountain the whole limit thereof round about shall be most holy. Behold, this is the law of the house.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
This is the law of the temple: all its surrounding territory on top of the mountain will be especially holy. Yes, this is the law of the temple."

International Standard Version (©2012)
This is to be the regulation for the Temple: the entire area on top of the mountain is to be considered wholly consecrated. This is to be the law of the Temple."

NET Bible (©2006)
"This is the law of the temple: The entire area on top of the mountain all around will be most holy. Indeed, this is the law of the temple.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
"This is a regulation of the temple: The whole area all the way around the top of the mountain is most holy. Yes, this is a regulation of the temple."

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
This is the law of the house; Upon the top of the mountain the whole area round about shall be most holy. Behold, this is the law of the house.

American King James Version
This is the law of the house; On the top of the mountain the whole limit thereof round about shall be most holy. Behold, this is the law of the house.

American Standard Version
This is the law of the house: upon the top of the mountain the whole limit thereof round about shall be most holy. Behold, this is the law of the house.

Douay-Rheims Bible
This is the law of the house upon the top of the mountain: All its border round about is most holy: this then is the law of the house.

Darby Bible Translation
This is the law of the house: Upon the top of the mountain all its border round about is most holy. Behold, this is the law of the house.

English Revised Version
This is the law of the house: upon the top of the mountain the whole limit thereof round about shall be most holy. Behold, this is the law of the house.

Webster's Bible Translation
This is the law of the house; Upon the top of the mountain, the whole limit of it around shall be most holy. Behold, this is the law of the house.

World English Bible
This is the law of the house: on the top of the mountain the whole limit around it shall be most holy. Behold, this is the law of the house.

Young's Literal Translation
This is a law of the house: on the top of the mountain, all its border all round about is most holy; lo, this is a law of the house.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

This is the law of the house,.... Which follows, the more general one, which comprehends the rest:

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Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See also Ezekiel 47:12. This is the law of the ordinance of the new sanctuary. After the consecration, God pronounces the "law" which is to govern the ordinances of the sanctuary (compare 1 Kings 8), first briefly repeating the general rule that the place must be kept holy to the Lord (compare Revelation 21:27), and then proceeding to specific ordinances commencing with the altar.

Clarke's Commentary on the Bible

This is the law of the house - From the top of the mountain on which it stands, to the bottom, all round about, all shall be holy; no buildings shall be erected in any part, nor place nor spot be appropriated to a common use; all shall be considered as being most holy.

Geneva Study Bible

This is the law of the house; Upon the top of the mountain the whole limit thereof round about shall be most holy. Behold, this is the law of the house.

Wesley's Notes

43:12 The law - This is the first comprehensive rule: holiness becomes God's house; and this relative holiness referred to personal and real holiness. The top - The whole circuit of this mountain shall be holy, but the top of it on which the temple stands, shall be most holy.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

12. whole … most holy-This superlative, which had been used exclusively of the holy of holies (Ex 26:34), was now to characterize the entire building. This all-pervading sanctity was to be "the law of the (whole) house," as distinguished from the Levitical law, which confined the peculiar sanctity to a single apartment of it.

Ezekiel 43:12 Parallel Commentaries
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The Lord's Glory Returns to the Temple
…10You son of man, show the house to the house of Israel, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities: and let them measure the pattern. 11And if they be ashamed of all that they have done, show them the form of the house, and the fashion thereof, and the goings out thereof, and the comings in thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the laws thereof: and write it in their sight, that they may keep the whole form thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and do them. 12This is the law of the house; On the top of the mountain the whole limit thereof round about shall be most holy. Behold, this is the law of the house.

Ezekiel 20:40 For on my holy mountain, the high mountain of Israel, declares the Sovereign LORD, there in the land all the people of Israel will serve me, and there I will accept them. There I will require your offerings and your choice gifts, along with all your holy sacrifices.
Ezekiel 40:2 In visions of God he took me to the land of Israel and set me on a very high mountain, on whose south side were some buildings that looked like a city.
Micah 4:1 In the last days the mountain of the LORD's temple will be established as the highest of the mountains; it will be exalted above the hills, and peoples will stream to it.