Hesekiel 43:7

Elberfelder Bibel

Parallel Translations

Schlachter Bibel (1951)
Und er sprach zu mir: Menschensohn, dies ist der Ort meines Thrones und die Stätte meiner Fußsohlen, wo ich unter den Kindern Israel ewig wohnen will! Und das Haus Israel wird hinfort meinen heiligen Namen nicht mehr verunreinigen, weder sie noch ihre Könige, durch ihre Unzucht und durch die Leichname ihrer Könige bei deren Tode,

Lutherbible (1912)
Der sprach zu mir: Du Menschenkind, das ist der Ort meines Throns und die Stätte meiner Fußsohlen, darin ich ewiglich will wohnen unter den Kindern Israel. Und das Haus Israel soll nicht mehr meinen heiligen Namen verunreinigen, weder sie noch ihre Könige, durch ihre Abgötterei und durch die Leichen ihrer Könige in ihren Höhen,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the place of my throne: Ezekiel 1:26, Ezekiel 10:1, Psalms 47:8, Psalms 99:1, Isaiah 6:1, Jeremiah 3:17, Jeremiah 14:21, Jeremiah 17:12, Acts 7:48, Acts 7:49, Revelation 22:3

and the place: 1 Chronicles 28:2, Psalms 99:5, Isaiah 66:1, Matthew 5:34, Matthew 5:35

where I: Ezekiel 43:9, Ezekiel 37:26-28, Ezekiel 48:35, Exodus 29:45, Psalms 68:18, Psalms 132:14, Joel 3:17, Matthew 28:20, John 1:14, John 14:23, 2 Corinthians 6:16, Revelation 21:2, Revelation 21:3

no more: Ezekiel 20:39, Ezekiel 23:38, Ezekiel 23:39, Ezekiel 39:7, Hosea 14:8, Zechariah 13:2, Zechariah 14:20, Zechariah 14:21

by the carcases: Ezekiel 43:9, Leviticus 26:30, Jeremiah 16:18

Reciprocal: Numbers 2:2 - about the Psalms 46:5 - God is Isaiah 12:6 - great Jeremiah 7:30 - they Ezekiel 9:1 - cried Ezekiel 37:23 - shall they defile Ezekiel 44:7 - ye have brought Hosea 14:3 - neither

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he said unto me, son of man,.... A kind, usual, and singular appellation, given to this prophet: these are the words either of the man that stood by him, so the Arabic version; or of Jehovah, speaking out of the house to him:

the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet: that is, this house, the church of God, is the place where the throne of the Lord is set; where he rules and reigns; where he sets his feet, and is his resting place; even his, whose throne is the heaven, and the earth his footstool; here Christ, as King of saints, dwells, and here he walks and shows the glory of his majesty:

where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel for ever; not Carnal, but spiritual Israel; such as are Israelites indeed, or which the church will be full in the latter day, both Jews and Gentiles; and in the midst of these will Jehovah dwell, and grant his gracious presence, and never more depart from them: this shows that this house or building can not be understood of the second temple; since the Lord did not dwell in that for ever, but has left that house desolate hundreds of years ago: some Jewish writers p have owned that it belongs to the times of the Messiah:

and my name shall the house of Israel no more defile, or "profane"; or cause to be blasphemed by immoralities, or false doctrines, or superstition and will worship; denoting the holiness of life, purity of doctrine and worship, in the churches of Christ in the latter day; see Isaiah 4:3:

neither they, nor their kings, by their whoredom: that is, idolatry, which is spiritual fornication; such as the kings of Israel, and their subjects, were often guilty of, before their captivity in Babylon, though not after; nor will they ever return to it in the latter day, when converted; for they will never espouse the idolatries of Rome; and those kings and people that bear the name of Christians, and yet commit fornication with the whore of Babylon, shall do so no more after these times, Revelation 17:2:

nor by the carcasses of their kings in their high places; or, and "their high places" q; that is, by both; by the carcasses of their kings being buried in or near the house of God; so the Targum adds, at their death r; or by human carcasses being sacrificed to Molech or Milcom, which signifies their king: or else the idols themselves are so called, because lifeless and abominable; see Jeremiah 16:18, and the worship of which the kings of Israel encouraged by precept and practice, order and example, and therefore called theirs; and also by their high places, which they made for idolatrous worship, and which were made where the carcasses of their kings were laid, as Ben Melech observes; and all which were done, especially in the reigns of Manasseh and Ammon: but now nothing of this kind shall be hereafter, or any thing now similar to it, in the antichristian state.

p Vid. R. Isaac Chizzuk Emunah, par. 1. p. 51. q במות "et excelsis suis", Junius Tremellius, Piscator. r So Abendana takes this word to signify "in [their] death" their carcasses being buried in their gardens, as Manasseh, 2 Kings xxi. 18.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

He said - i. e., God “said.” Both the Septuagint and the Vulgate break this verse into two, so as to make the first half the solemn words of dedication. place a full stop after “forever;” the words mark the distinction between the new and the former sanctuary.

The palace of Solomon abutted upon the southern side of the embankment of the temple-platform; there was but “a wall between Yahweh and them.” When the kings gave themselves up to idolatry, this vicinity was to the temple a pollution and defilement. Thus it has been conjectured that “the garden of Uzza” in which Manasseh and Amon were buried 2Ki 21:18, 2 Kings 21:26, and on which now stands the mosque of Omar, was on the temple area itself; if so, this would explain the mention of “high places” in connection with the defilement by the “carcases of kings,” since the platform of the mosque of Omar at the time of Ezekiel rose to a considerable height above the temple.

Besides this, idolatrous kings of Judah did actually introduce their idolatries into the temple courts themselves (compare 2 Kings 16:11; 2 Kings 21:4).

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezekiel 43:7. Son of man, the place of my throne — The throne refers to his majesty; the soles of his feet, to his condescension in dwelling among men.

Where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel — The tabernacle and temple were types of the incarnation of Jesus Christ: "Destroy THIS TEMPLE, and after three days I will raise it up; - but this he spake of the temple of his body;" John 2:19; John 2:21. And in THAT TEMPLE "dwelt all the fulness of the Godhead bodily." Into this immaculate humanity did the glory of the Supreme God enter; and thus, "God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself." And this Jesus is Immanuel, GOD with US. In him we find united the ineffable majesty of God, with the abjectness of man. He humbled himself in human nature, not only to bear the form of a servant, but to suffer death upon the cross as a malefactor slave! But by these means he has purchased eternal redemption for us; and the spiritual Israel, who find redemption in his blood, shall be raised up wherever his holy name shall be proclaimed; and shall not, like the old apostate Israel, defile that great name by idolatry or a life of wickedness, but they shall show forth the virtues of Him who has called them from darkness into his marvellous light.