Ezekiel 43:15 Above that, the altar hearth is four cubits high, and four horns project upward from the hearth.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
Above that, the altar hearth is four cubits high, and four horns project upward from the hearth.

English Standard Version
and the altar hearth, four cubits; and from the altar hearth projecting upward, four horns.

New American Standard Bible
"The altar hearth shall be four cubits; and from the altar hearth shall extend upwards four horns.

King James Bible
So the altar shall be four cubits; and from the altar and upward shall be four horns.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The altar hearth is seven feet high, and four horns project upward from the hearth.

International Standard Version
The hearth is to be four cubits high, and four horns are to extend upwards from the hearth.

American Standard Version
And the upper altar shall be four cubits; and from the altar hearth and upward there shall be four horns.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the Ariel itself was four cubits: and from the Ariel upward were four horns.

Darby Bible Translation
And the upper altar was four cubits; and from the hearth of God and upward were four horns.

Young's Literal Translation
And the altar is four cubits, and from the altar and upward are four horns.

Cross References

Exodus 27:2
And you shall make the horns of it on the four corners thereof: his horns shall be of the same: and you shall overlay it with brass.

Leviticus 9:9
And the sons of Aaron brought the blood to him: and he dipped his finger in the blood, and put it on the horns of the altar, and poured out the blood at the bottom of the altar:

1 Kings 1:50
And Adonijah feared because of Solomon, and arose, and went, and caught hold on the horns of the altar.

Psalm 118:27
God is the LORD, which has showed us light: bind the sacrifice with cords, even to the horns of the altar.

Ezekiel 43:20
And you shall take of the blood thereof, and put it on the four horns of it, and on the four corners of the settle, and on the border round about: thus shall you cleanse and purge it.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's 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.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

15. altar—Hebrew, Harel, that is, "mount of God"; denoting the high security to be imparted by it to the restored Israel. It was a high place, but a high place of God, not of idols.

from the altar—literally, "the lion of God," Ariel (in Isa 29:1, "Ariel" is applied to Jerusalem). Menochius supposes that on it four animals were carved; the lion perhaps was the uppermost, whence the horns were made to issue. Gesenius regards the two words as expressing the "hearth" or fireplace of the altar.