What Does Ezekiel 41:22 Mean in the King James?

The altar of wood was three cubits high, and the length thereof two cubits; and the corners thereof, and the length thereof, and the walls thereof, were of wood: and he said unto me, This is the table that is before the LORD.

Ezekiel 41:22 · KJV

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THE KEY

The altar does not stop being an altar when it is called a table; sacrifice and provision meet before the LORD.

THE MEANING

The verse lets the reader see an offering-place as a table set before the LORD. What is surrendered and what is set out in the divine presence belong in one scene.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

It loosens the assumption that what is sacred can only take from you: this altar is also called a table before the LORD.

THE ROOT

שֻׁלְחָן

shulchan

GROWS FROM

שלח

to send, send forth, release, or extend

The Hebrew word for table carries the root sense of sending forth and extending. So when the altar is named as a table, the verse holds offering together with provision that is extended before the LORD.

ALSO GROWS

shalach: to send, send forth, release, or let go

שָׁלַח

The root gives the table a sense of something extended or sent out, fitting its place as provision before the LORD.

Shiloach: sent forth; the name of the waters of Shiloah

שִׁלֹחַ

The sent waters echo the same movement of what is extended outward, while the table presents provision before the LORD.

מִזְבֵּחַ

mizbeach

GROWS FROM

זבח

to slaughter or sacrifice

The root keeps the cost of the altar visible: sacrifice is not erased when the verse calls the altar a table. The verse places the sacrificial act and the table before the LORD side by side.

ALSO GROWS

zavach: to slaughter or sacrifice

זָבַח

This verb holds the concrete act behind the altar’s name, so the table image does not soften what is offered.

zevach: a sacrifice or sacrificial meal

זֶבַח

The offering can also be named as a meal, bringing the altar’s sacrificial and table meanings into the same scene.

THE PATTERN

A place set before God can hold both offering and provision.

And thou shalt set upon the table shewbread before me alway.

Exodus 25:30 · KJVThe table holds bread continually before God, as Ezekiel’s altar is also named a table before the LORD.

Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.

Psalm 23:5 · KJVThe table is prepared in God’s presence even while danger remains around it.

Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord’s table, and of the table of devils.

1 Corinthians 10:21 · KJVThe Lord’s table names a place of shared participation, extending the image beyond an object to what is received there.

THE THREAD

And thou shalt set upon the table shewbread before me alway.

Exodus 25:30 · KJV

The same Hebrew noun ⁨שֻׁלְחָן⁩ (shulchan, table) appears here and in Exodus, where bread is set before God. That shared word makes Ezekiel’s naming precise: the altar is also located within the language of a table in the LORD’s presence.

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