Charles Ellicott Commentary Ezekiel 40:43

"And the hooks, a handbreadth long, were fastened within round about: and upon the tables was the flesh of the oblation." — Ezekiel 40:43 (ASV)

Hooks.— This is a word of doubtful meaning, found elsewhere only in Psalms 68:13, where it is translated pots. It certainly designates something “within” the porch, and therefore could not have been anything attached to the tables which were “without.” Our translators, following the ancient Chaldee paraphrast, have probably given the true sense, hooks, upon which the flesh of the victims was hung after it had been prepared upon the tables.