Ezekiel 42:16
With a measuring rod he measured the east side to be five hundred cubits long.
Note See LXX; five hundred cubits from verse 17 LXX and implied in verses 16, 18, 19, and 20 is approximately 875 feet or 266.7 meters in length. Hebrew five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed round about, that is approximately 5,250 feet or 1,600 meters; similarly in verses 17, 18, 19, and 20.
He measured the east side with the measuring reed, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed round about.
Note side: Heb. wind
He measured on the east side with the measuring reed five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed all around.
He measured on the east side with the measuring reed five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed round about.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- side
- Heb. wind. the measuring reed. Estimating the reed at 10® feet, 500 reeds will be nearly equal to a mile; so that from this statement we find the temple, with its outbuildings, was built on a square, nearly an English mile on each side, and four miles in circumference. This not only far exceeds the size of Solomon's temple, or that after the captivity, which was only 500 cubits, or a furlong, on each side, and exactly half a mile in circuit; but is nearly equal to the whole extent of Jerusalem itself, which, when greatest, was but 33 furlongs in circumference, somewhat less than 4 miles. This seems clearly to intimate, that the vision cannot be explained of any temple that has hitherto been built, or indeed of any literal temple, but figuratively and mystically of the spiritual temple, the church under the gospel, and its spiritual glory.
- Ezekiel 40:3; Zechariah 2:1; Revelation 11:1, 2