Ezekiel Chapter 42 verse 16 Holy Bible
He measured on the east side with the measuring reed five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed round about.
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He went round and took the measure of it on the east side with the measuring rod, five hundred, measured with the rod all round.
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He measured the east side with the measuring-reed, five hundred reeds, with the measuring-reed round about.
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He measured the east side with the measuring reed, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed round about.
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He measured on the east side with the measuring reed five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed round about.
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He hath measured the east side with the measuring-reed, five hundred reeds, with the measuring-reed round about.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 16. - Five hundred reeds. Ewald, Hitzig, and Smend, with others, following the LXX., regard this wall as that of the outer court, and change the "reeds" into "cubits;" but the majority of expositors adhere to the text, and understand the wall to be that of a great quadrangle which encompassed the whole structure, or the outer court and all within.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(16) With the measuring reed.--According to Ezekiel 40:5 the reed was six cubits long; 500 reeds therefore, the measure of each side of the square, was 3,000 cubits, or about 5,000 feet = nearly a mile. Of course such a space, quite as large as was ever enclosed by the walls of ancient Jerusalem, would have been impossible upon the hill of Moriah, and various efforts have been made by some of the commentators to reduce the size; but the use of the reed as the unit of measurement is decisive. The objection to the size is without value, as Keil well says, "for the simple reason that in Ezekiel 45, 48 there follow still further statements concerning the separation of the sanctuary from the rest of the land, which are in perfect harmony with this, and show most indisputably that the Temple seen by Ezekiel was not to have its seat in the ancient Jerusalem;" nor, it may be added, in any other earthly locality. It is a vision not designed to have a material realisation.
