Ezekiel 43

The Glory of the LORD Returns to the Temple

1 Then the man brought me back to the gate that faces east, ‡ Ezk 42:15Ezk 44:1Ezk 40:6Ezk 46:1Ezk 10:19Ezk 43:4 2 and I saw the glory of the God of Israel coming from the east. His voice was like the roar of many waters, and the earth shone with His glory. ‡ Rev 18:1Ezk 11:23Isa 6:3Ezk 10:18-19Rev 1:15Rev 14:2Ezk 1:28Ezk 10:4 +10

3 The vision I saw was like the vision I had seen when He came ¹to destroy the city and like the visions I had seen by the River Kebar. I fell facedown, ‡ Ezk 9:1Ezk 9:5Ezk 1:3-28Ezk 3:23Ezk 32:18Jer 1:10Ezk 10:1-22Ezk 11:22-23 +34 and the glory of the LORD entered the temple through the gate facing east. ‡ Ezk 10:18-19Ezk 44:2Ezk 43:2 5 Then the Spirit lifted me up and brought me into the inner court, and the glory of the LORD filled the temple. ‡ 2Co 12:2-41Ki 8:10-11Ezk 11:24Ezk 8:3Act 8:39Ezk 3:12-14Ezk 37:1Ezk 44:4 +9

6 While the man was standing beside me, I heard someone speaking to me from inside the temple, ‡ Ezk 40:3Isa 66:6Lev 1:1Rev 16:1 7 and He said to me, “Son of man, this is the place of My throne and the place for the soles of My feet, where I will dwell among the Israelites forever. The house of Israel will never again defile My holy name—neither they nor their kings—by their prostitution and by the funeral offerings ²for their kings at their deaths. ³ ‡ Ezk 43:9Psa 47:8Lev 26:301Ch 28:2Ezk 1:26Ezk 20:39Psa 99:1Rev 22:3 +268 When they placed their threshold next to My threshold and their doorposts beside My doorposts, with only a wall between Me and them, they defiled My holy name by the abominations they committed. Therefore I have consumed them in My anger. ‡ Ezk 5:112Ch 33:42Ch 33:7Ezk 23:39Ezk 44:7Ezk 8:3-162Ki 21:4-72Ki 16:14-15 +19 Now let them remove far from Me their prostitution and the funeral offerings for their kings, and I will dwell among them forever. ‡ Ezk 43:7Col 3:5-9Ezk 18:30-31Ezk 37:26-282Co 6:16Ezk 37:23Hos 2:2

10 As for you, son of man, describe the temple to the people of Israel, so that they may be ashamed of their iniquities. Let them measure the plan, ‡ Ezk 40:4Ezk 16:61Ezk 16:63Ezk 43:111Ch 28:111Ch 28:19Exo 25:40Ezk 23:31-32 +111 and if they are ashamed ⁴of all they have done, then make known to them the design of the temple—its arrangement and its exits and entrances—its whole design along with all its statutes, forms, and laws. Write it down in their sight, so that they may keep its complete design and all its statutes and may carry them out. ‡ Ezk 11:20Ezk 36:271Co 11:2Ezk 12:3Ezk 40:1-42Ezk 44:5-6Heb 8:5Jhn 13:17 +1

12 This is the law of the temple: All its surrounding territory on top of the mountain will be most holy. Yes, this is the law of the temple. ‡ Ezk 40:2Rev 21:27Ezk 42:20Jol 3:17Psa 93:5Zec 14:20-21

The Altar of Sacrifice

13 These are the measurements of the altar in long cubits ⁵(a cubit and a handbreadth): Its gutter shall be a cubit deep and a cubit wide, with a rim of one span ⁶around its edge. ‡ 2Ch 4:1Exo 27:1-8Ezk 40:5Ezk 41:8

And this is the height of the altar: 14 The space from the gutter on the ground to the lower ledge shall be two cubits, and the ledge one cubit wide. ⁷ The space from the smaller ledge to the larger ledge shall be four cubits, and the ledge one cubit wide. ⁸

15 The altar hearth shall be four cubits high, and four horns shall project upward from the hearth. ‡ Exo 27:2Lev 9:9Psa 118:271Ki 2:28Isa 29:1-2Isa 29:7 16 The altar hearth shall be square at its four corners, twelve cubits long and twelve cubits wide. ⁹ ‡ Exo 27:12Ch 4:1Exo 38:1-2Ezr 3:3 17 The ledge shall also be square, fourteen cubits long and fourteen cubits wide, ¹⁰ with a rim of half a cubit ¹¹and a gutter of a cubit all around it. The steps of the altar shall face east.” ‡ Exo 20:26Ezk 40:61Ki 18:321Ki 6:8Exo 25:25Exo 30:3Ezk 8:16Neh 9:4

18 Then He said to me: “Son of man, this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘These are the statutes for the altar on the day it is constructed, so that burnt offerings may be sacrificed on it and blood may be sprinkled on it: ‡ Exo 40:29Ezk 2:1Ezk 45:18-19Heb 10:4-12Heb 12:24Heb 9:13Heb 9:21-22Lev 1:5-17 +219 You are to give a young bull from the herd as a sin offering to the Levitical priests who are of the family of Zadok, who approach Me to minister before Me, declares the Lord GOD. ‡ Ezk 40:46Ezk 44:15Ezk 45:18-19Num 16:401Ki 2:35Heb 7:27Num 16:51Ki 2:27 +1220 You are to take some of its blood and put it on the four horns of the altar, on the four corners of the ledge, and all around the rim; thus you will cleanse the altar and make atonement for it. ‡ Lev 16:19Lev 8:15Exo 29:12Exo 29:36Ezk 43:22Ezk 43:26Lev 9:9Ezk 43:15-17 +421 Then you are to take away the bull for the sin offering and burn it in the appointed part of the temple area outside the sanctuary. ‡ Exo 29:14Lev 4:12Heb 13:11-12Lev 8:17

22 On the second day you are to present an unblemished male goat as a sin offering, and the altar is to be cleansed as it was with the bull. ‡ Ezk 43:20Ezk 43:25-261Pe 1:19Exo 29:15-18Isa 53:10Isa 53:6Lev 8:18-21 23 When you have finished the purification, you are to present a young, unblemished bull and an unblemished ram from the flock. ‡ Exo 29:1 24 You must present them before the LORD; the priests are to sprinkle salt on them and sacrifice them as a burnt offering to the LORD. ‡ Lev 2:13Mrk 9:49-50Col 4:6Num 18:192Ch 13:5Mat 5:13

25 For seven days you are to provide a male goat daily for a sin offering; you are also to provide a young bull and a ram from the flock, both unblemished. ‡ Lev 8:33Exo 29:35-37Lev 8:35 26 For seven days the priests are to make atonement for the altar and cleanse it; so they shall consecrate it. ¹² ‡ Exo 29:24Exo 32:29Lev 8:34 27 At the end of these days, from the eighth day on, the priests are to present your burnt offerings and peace offerings on the altar. Then I will accept you, declares the Lord GOD.’” ‡ Lev 9:11Pe 2:5Col 1:20-21Eph 1:6Ezk 20:40-41Heb 13:15Hos 8:13Job 42:8 +5