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Ezequiel 42:16
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Midió el lado oriental con la caña de medir, y tenía alrededor quinientas cañas de la caña de medir.
Midi� el lado oriental con la ca�a de medir, quinientas ca�as de la ca�a de medir en derredor.
Midi� el lado oriental con la ca�a de medir, quinientas ca�as de la ca�a de medir en derredor.
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
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, Revelation 11:2
Reciprocal: Ezekiel 45:1 - the length Ezekiel 45:2 - five hundred in length Ezekiel 48:30 - four
Gill's Notes on the Bible
He measured the east side,.... He began with that, being at the east gate: the building was foursquare, and so was the wall about it, and had each four equilateral sides, which were separately measured; here the east side, from the two angles of it, the north and south points:
with the measuring reed; which consisted of six cubits, and which cubits were larger than the common sort by a hand's breadth; so that a measuring reed measured three yards and a half: and the whole measure of the east side were
five hundred reeds: which make one thousand seven hundred and fifty yards:
with the measuring reed round about; not round about the building, since only one side, as yet, was measured; but round about that side, or from angle to angle, or from one side to the other: having finished one side, he went to another, until he had measured all round; but did not go four times round it, only once.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The Precincts. The temple and its courts were surrounded by an area of exact dimensions 3,000 cubits (1,500 yards) square. See Plan IV.
Ezekiel 42:15
The inner house - The temple and its courts, all that lay within the “wall on the outside of the house Ezekiel 40:5; the gate” is the eastern gate of the outer court.
Measured it round about - The precincts, into which he had brought the seer through the eastern gate of the outer court.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 16. - 19. He measured the east - north - south - west side — Each of which was five hundred reeds: and, as the building was square, the area must have been nearly thirteen thousand paces. No wonder this was called a city. See Ezekiel 40:2.
