Ezekiel 42:16
Good News Translation
He took the measuring rod and measured the east side, and it was 840 feet.

New Revised Standard Version
He measured the east side with the measuring reed, five hundred cubits by the measuring reed.

Contemporary English Version
He used his measuring stick to measure the east side of this wall; it was 250 meters long.

New American Bible
He measured the east side, five hundred cubits by his measuring rod. Then he turned

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he measured toward the east with the measuring reed, five hundred reeds with the measuring reed round about.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And he measured toward the east with the measuring reed, five hundred reeds with the measuring reed round about.

side [heb] wind

10.5 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 that

4:25 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 And he brought me in thither, and behold a man, whose appearance was like the appearance of brass, with a line of flax in his hand, and a measuring reed in his hand, and he stood in the gate.

Zechariah 2:1 And I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold a man, with a measuring line in his hand.

Revelation 11:1,2 And there was given me a reed, like unto a rod. And it was said to me: Arise, and measure the temple of God and the altar and them that adore therein. . . .

Context
Outer Measurements
15Now when he had made an end of measuring the inner house, he brought me out by the way of the gate that looked toward the east: and he measured it on every side round about. 16And he measured toward the east with the measuring reed, five hundred reeds with the measuring reed round about.17And he measured toward the north five hundred reeds with the measuring reed round about.…
Cross References
Ezekiel 40:3
And he brought me in thither, and behold a man, whose appearance was like the appearance of brass, with a line of flax in his hand, and a measuring reed in his hand, and he stood in the gate.

Ezekiel 42:17
And he measured toward the north five hundred reeds with the measuring reed round about.

Ezekiel 45:1
And when you shall begin to divide the land by lot, separate ye firstfruits to the Lord, a portion of the land to be holy, in length twenty-five thousand and in breadth ten thousand: it shall be holy in all the borders thereof round about.

Ezekiel 42:15
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