And these are the goings out of the city: on the north side thou shalt measure four thousand and five hundred.

the goings.

Ezekiel 48:16,32-35 And these are the measures thereof: on the north side four thousand and five hundred: and on the south side four thousand and five hundred: and on the east side four thousand and five hundred: and on the west side four thousand and five hundred. . . .

Revelation 21:16 And the city lieth in a four-square: and the length thereof is as great as the breadth. And he measured the city with the golden reed for twelve thousand furlongs: and the length and the height and the breadth thereof are equal.

four.

Ezekiel 48:15 But the five thousand that remain in the breadth over against the five and twenty thousand, shall be a profane place for the city for dwelling, and for suburbs and the city shall be in the midst thereof.

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Ezekiel 42:16 And he measured toward the east with the measuring reed, five hundred reeds with the measuring reed round about.

.) The large dimensions of the city and land were perhaps intended to intimate the extensive and glorious propagation of the gospel in the times predicted; and the land was not called Canaan, not the city Jerusalem, probably because they were figurative of spiritual blessings to the church and to Israel.