Ezekiel 40:43 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

Within the house, porch, or whatever the place be called where these tables stood. Hooks; learned conjectures here, as in many other places, perplex more than explain. Hooks, on which the slaughtered sacrifice might be hanged. while they prepared it further, were needful, and the word imports such iron hooks. It is probable that there might be two hooks of iron fastened to or wrought out, where the plate was so broad, and therefore called hooks in the plural. Fastened to walls, no doubt, near these tables. Upon the tables was the flesh of the offering; they were careful to keep the holy flesh from lying any where that might look like common ground. It is like that the sacrifice was fastened to these hooks, and rested on these stone tables, while the priests cut them into their pieces.

Ezekiel 40:43

43 And within were hooks,i an hand broad, fastened round about: and upon the tables was the flesh of the offering.