Matthew Poole and continuators on Ezekiel 40:43

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

Within the House, Porch, or what ere the place be called, where these Tables stood.

Learned conjectures here, as in many other places, perplex more than explain. Hooks, on which the [illegible: 1 letter]laughtered Sacrifice might be hang'd, while they prepared it farther, were needful, and the word imports such Iron Hooks.

It is probable, that there might be two Hooks of Iron fastned to, or wrought out, where the pla[illegible: 1 letter]e was so broad, and therefore called Hooks in the plural.

To Walls, no doubt, near these Tables.

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 fastned to these Hooks, and rested on these stone Tables, while the Priests cut them into their pieces.

Marginal references: Or, Endirons. Or, the two hearth stones.