Ezekiel 43:1
in Ezekiel 43Then the man brought me back to the gate that faces east,
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
Afterward he brought me to the gate, even the gate that looketh toward the east.
KJV
Afterward he brought me to the gate, even the gate that looketh toward the east:
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This verse in Ezekiel 43
Commentary
7 notes on this verseAfterward 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, Eze 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.
This site's exposition
the gate that faces east
on Ezekiel 43:1-4
The glory returns “coming from the east,” by the road it took when it left the city at 11:23. His voice is “like the roar of many waters,” the figure chapter 1 used of the throne. Keil reads the return as the whole argument of the vision in one scene.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers3 voices
(Chapter 43, verses 1 onwards) \"And he brought me to the gate that faced east. And behold, the glory of the God of Israel was coming from the east. And the sound of his coming was like the sound of many waters, and the earth shone with his majesty. And I saw a vision like the vision that I had seen when he came to destroy the city. And the vision that I saw was like the vision that I had seen by the river Chebar.
For here is where only the glory of the God of Israel enters; but there it is said that the fullness of the glory of the Lord was in the temple, as Isaiah also writes: I saw the Lord sitting on a high and lofty throne, and the house was full of his glory; when we contemplate the revealed face of the glory of the Lord, we are transformed into the image of the Creator.
And the earth shone with his majesty. Which properly happened at the coming of Christ; when the sound of the apostles went out into all the earth, and their words to the ends of the world: and it is fulfilled daily in believers, and will be fulfilled completely, when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality.
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
A promise given of the continuance of God's presence with his people upon condition of their return to, and continuance in, the instituted way of worship, and their abandoning idols and idolatry,
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
proposed
The gate - This was the eastern gate from the precincts to the outer court.
How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
And he led me He again led me into the Eastern Gate, and I saw the Glory descending to the Court.
This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.
Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 5 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.
The words behind it
8 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וַיּוֹלִכֵ֖נִי | vaiyolikheni | and he led me | H1980 → | 1546 times |
| אֶל־ | ʾel- | to | H413 → | 5510 times |
| הַשָּׁ֑עַר | hashaar | the gate | H8179 → | 374 times |
| שַׁ֕עַר | shaar | [the] gate | H8179 → | 374 times |
| אֲשֶׁ֥ר | ʾasher | which | H834 → | 5497 times |
| פֹּנֶ֖ה | poneh | [was] facing | H6437 → | 135 times |
| דֶּ֥רֶךְ | derekh | [the] direction of | H1870 → | 707 times |
| הַקָּדִֽים׃ | hakadim | the east | H6921 → | 69 times |
וַיּוֹלִכֵ֖נִיand he led me
vaiyolikheniH1980 →1546 times
אֶל־to
ʾel-H413 →5510 times
הַשָּׁ֑עַרthe gate
hashaarH8179 →374 times
שַׁ֕עַר[the] gate
shaarH8179 →374 times
אֲשֶׁ֥רwhich
ʾasherH834 →5497 times
פֹּנֶ֖ה[was] facing
ponehH6437 →135 times
דֶּ֥רֶךְ[the] direction of
derekhH1870 →707 times
הַקָּדִֽים׃the east
hakadimH6921 →69 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Ezekiel 40:6Then he came to the gate facing east and climbed its steps. He measured the threshold of the gate to be one rod deep.
it leads to
- Ezekiel 8:16
So He brought me to the inner court of the house of the LORD, and there at the entrance to the temple of the LORD, between the portico and the altar, were about twenty-five…
Reached by 3 separate paths from here.
- 1 Chronicles 9:18
Shallum was their chief; he was previously stationed at the King’s Gate on the east side. These were the gatekeepers from the camp of the Levites.
- Ezekiel 10:18
Then the glory of the LORD moved away from the threshold of the temple and stood above the cherubim.
- Ezekiel 40:20
He also measured the length and width of the gateway of the outer court facing north.
- 1 Kings 6:8
The entrance to the bottom floor was on the south side of the temple. A stairway led up to the middle level, and from there to the third floor.
- Ezekiel 8:16
Through
Ezekiel 46:1“This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘The gate of the inner court that faces east must be kept shut during the six days of work, but on the Sabbath day and on the…
it leads to
- Isaiah 66:23
From one New Moon to another and from one Sabbath to another, all mankind will come to worship before Me,” says the LORD.
- Ezekiel 44:1–2
The man then brought me back to the outer gate of the sanctuary that faced east, but it was shut.
- Ezekiel 45:17–19
And it shall be the prince’s part to provide the burnt offerings, grain offerings, and drink offerings for the feasts, New Moons, and Sabbaths—for all the appointed feasts of the house of Israel. He…
- Isaiah 66:23
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About Ezekiel
This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Carl Friedrich Keil, Biblical Commentary on the Prophecies of Ezekiel; Jerome, Commentary on Ezekiel; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.