Ezekiel 43 · Verse 12

Ezekiel 43:12

This is the law of the house; Upon the top of the mountain the whole limit thereof round about shall be most holy. Behold, this is the law of the house.
Ezekiel 43:12, King James Version

Ezekiel 43:12 in other translations

BSBThis 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.
WEB“This is the law of the house. On the top of the mountain the whole limit around it shall be most holy. Behold, this is the law of the house.
ASVThis is the law of the house: upon the top of the mountain the whole limit thereof round about shall be most holy. Behold, this is the law of the house.
YLTThis is a law of the house: on the top of the mountain, all its border all round about is most holy; lo, this is a law of the house.
DARBYThis is the law of the house: Upon the top of the mountain all its border round about is most holy. Behold, this is the law of the house.
BBEThis is the law of the house: On the top of the mountain all the space round it on every side will be most holy. See, this is the law of the house.
WebsterThis is the law of the house; Upon the top of the mountain, the whole limit of it around shall be most holy. Behold, this is the law of the house.

What does Ezekiel 43:12 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
12. whole ... most holy--This superlative, which had been used exclusively of the holy of holies (Ex 26:34), was now to characterize the entire building. This all-pervading sanctity was to be "the law of the (whole) house," as distinguished from the Levitical law, which confined the peculiar sanctity to a single apartment of it.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 12 This is the law of the house - From the top of the mountain on which it stands, to the bottom, all round about, all shall be holy; no buildings shall be erected in any part, nor place nor spot be appropriated to a common use; all shall be considered as being most holy.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Ezekiel 43:12 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

זֹ֖אתzotthisH2063
תּוֹרַ֣תto.Rat[is] [the] law ofH8451
הַבָּ֑יִתha.Ba.yitthe houseH1004
עַל\־'al-onH5921
רֹ֣אשׁrosh[the] top ofH7218
הָ֠הָרHa.horthe mountainH2022
כָּל\־kol-allH3605
גְּבֻל֞וֹge.vu.Loterritory itsH1366
סָבִ֤יב\׀sa.Vivall aroundH5439
סָבִיב֙sa.Vivall aroundH5439
קֹ֣דֶשׁKo.desh[will be] a holy place ofH6944
קָדָשִׁ֔יםka.da.Shimholy placesH6944
הִנֵּה\־hi.neh-there!H2009
זֹ֖אתzotthisH2063
תּוֹרַ֥תto.Rat[is] [the] law ofH8451
הַבָּֽיִת\׃ha.Ba.yitthe houseH1004

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Ezekiel 43:12

  • Ezekiel 40:2

    In the visions of God brought he me into the land of Israel, and set me upon a very high mountain, by which was as the frame of a city on the south.

  • Revelation 21:27

    And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb’s book of life.

  • Psalms 93:5

    Thy testimonies are very sure: holiness becometh thine house, O Lord, for ever.

  • Ezekiel 42:20

    He measured it by the four sides: it had a wall round about, five hundred reeds long, and five hundred broad, to make a separation between the sanctuary and the profane place.

  • Joel 3:17

    So shall ye know that I am the Lord your God dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers pass through her any more.

  • Zechariah 14:20-21

    In that day shall there be upon the bells of the horses, HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD; and the pots in the Lord’s house shall be like the bowls before the altar. Yea, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holiness unto the Lord of hosts: and all they that sacrifice shall come and take of them, and seethe therein: and in that day there shall be no more the Canaanite in the house of the Lord of hosts.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Upon.
40:2; 42:20; Ps 93:5; Joe 3:17; Zec 14:20,21; Re 21:27

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Ezekiel 43:11

    And if they be ashamed of all that they have done, shew them the form of the house, and the fashion thereof, and the goings out thereof, and the comings in thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the laws thereof: and write it in their sight, that they may keep the whole form thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and do them.

  • Ezekiel 43:12

    This is the law of the house; Upon the top of the mountain the whole limit thereof round about shall be most holy. Behold, this is the law of the house.

  • Ezekiel 43:13

    And these are the measures of the altar after the cubits: The cubit is a cubit and an hand breadth; even the bottom shall be a cubit, and the breadth a cubit, and the border thereof by the edge thereof round about shall be a span: and this shall be the higher place of the altar.

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Ezekiel 43:12 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Esta es la ley de la casa: Sobre la cumbre del monte, todo su término alrededor será santísimo. He aquí que esta es la ley de la casa.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		C’est ici la loi de la maison: sur la cime de la montagne, toutes ses limites tout à l’entour sont un lieu très saint. Voici, telle est la loi de la maison.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Dies ist das Gesetz des Hauses: Auf dem Gipfel des Berges soll sein ganzes Gebiet ringsherum hochheilig sein; siehe, das ist das Gesetz des Hauses. -
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Ista est lex domus in summitate montis: omnis finis ejus in circuitu, Sanctum sanctorum est. Hæc est ergo lex domus.