Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Ezekiel 43:16
And the altar [shall be] twelve [cubits] long, twelve broad, square in the four squares thereof.
16. The preceding measurements have referred to height. Those referring to breadth or area are now given. The altar-hearth or platform was 12 cubits square.
four squares thereof ] four sides thereof. So Eze 43:17.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
altar – Ariel was to be an exact square on all sides. Compare Exo 27:1; Rev 21:16.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
The altar; that which in the 15th verse is precisely determined to be the altar, the uppermost and least settle.
Twelve cubits long, twelve broad; all exact square, by which we may know the dimensions of the other two; the first of the two was wider by two cubits, and longer by two cubits, than the highest, and the lowest was as much greater and larger than the middlemost. The highest twelve cubits square, the middle fourteen cubits square, and the lowest sixteen cubits square.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
16. square in the foursquaressquare on the four sides of its squares [FAIRBAIRN].
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
And the altar shall be twelve cubits long, twelve broad,…. The length of it, from east to west, was twelve cubits; and the breadth, from north to south, was the same; so that it was a proper foursquare, as follows: Christ the altar, or the doctrine of his sacrifice and satisfaction for the sins of men, is the doctrine of the twelve apostles of Christ, and embraced by the twelve times twelve, the 144,000 that belong unto him:
square in the four squares thereof; as the altar in the tabernacle, and Solomon’s temple, were, Ex 27:1, denoting the largeness of Christ’s sacrifice, the perfection of it, and its stability and permanency, to take away the sin, of his people.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
“And the altar hearth (’ari’el) shall be shall be twelve long by twelve broad, square in its four sides.”
The whole altar was to be foursquare indicating its perfection but it is only as regards the altar hearth that we are specifically told this. It is a large altar, twelve cubits by twelve cubits at the top (contrast Exo 27:1 where the altar was five cubits by five cubits and 2Ch 4:1 where Solomon’s altar was twenty cubits by twenty cubits but not said to be stepped.).
Fuente: Commentary Series on the Bible by Peter Pett
Eze 43:16 And the altar [shall be] twelve [cubits] long, twelve broad, square in the four squares thereof.
Ver. 16. Square in the four squares thereof. ] Christ, the Christian altar, is complete, firm, and fixed.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
twelve cubits: Exo 27:1, 2Ch 4:1, Ezr 3:3
square: Exo 38:1, Exo 38:2
Reciprocal: Isa 29:1 – woe Eze 43:14 – the lower settle Eze 43:20 – and on the four
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Eze 43:16. The altar as measured here was 13 cubits or 18 feet square.