The waters of the sanctuary which this prophet saw in vision are a proper representation of this prophecy. Hitherto the waters have been sometimes but to the ankles, in other places to the knees, or to the loins, but now the waters have risen, and have become “a river which cannot be passed over.”…

Here is, 1. The date of this vision. It was in the twenty-fifth year of Ezekiel’s captivity , which some compute to be the thirty-third year of the first captivity, and is here said to be the fourteenth year after the city was smitten.

The measuring-reed which was in the hand of the surveyor-general was mentioned before, Ezek. 40:3. Here we are told what was the exact length of it, which must be observed, because the house was measured by it.

In these verses we have a delineation of the inner court. The survey of the outer court ended with the south side of it. This of the inner court begins with the south side , proceeds to the east , and so to the north ; for here is no gate either of the outer or inner court towards the west.

In these verses we have an account, I. Of the tables that were in the porch of the gates of the inner court. We find no description of the altars of burnt-offerings in the midst of that court till Ezek. 43:13.