Hesekiel 48:16

Elberfelder Bibel

Parallel Translations

Schlachter Bibel (1951)
Und das sollen ihre Maße sein: die Nordseite 4500, die Südseite 4500, die Ostseite 4500 und die Westseite 4500.

Lutherbible (1912)
Und das soll ihr Maß sein: viertausend und fünfhundert Ruten gegen Mitternacht und gegen Mittag, desgleichen gegen Morgen und gegen Abend auch viertausend und fünfhundert.

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Reciprocal: Ezekiel 48:30 - the goings

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And this shall be the measures thereof,.... Of the city:

the north side four thousand and five hundred; that is, measures or reeds:

the south side four thousand and five hundred, and on the east side four thousand and five hundred, and the west side four thousand and five hundred; in all eighteen hundred measures or reeds, as in

Ezekiel 48:35 which denotes the largeness of the Gospel church, especially in the latter day; when Jews and Gentiles will be converted, and multitudes, east, west, north and south, will be gathered to it; and as it is an equilateral square, this shows the perfection, firmness, stability, and duration of the church of Christ; so the holy city, the New Jerusalem, is for the same reasons said to be foursquare,

Revelation 21:16.