Ezekiel 42:16 KJV — MannaFest

Ezekiel 42:16

He measured the east side with the measuring reed, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed round about.

KJV

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ASV

He measured on the east side with the measuring reed five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed round about.

WEB

With a measuring rod he measured the east side to be five hundred cubits long.

YLT

He hath measured the east side with the measuring-reed, five hundred reeds, with the measuring-reed round about.

DBT

He measured the east side with the measuring-reed, five hundred reeds, with the measuring-reed round about.

About this book

Old Testament

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Ezekiel — The exile prophet — priest taken to Babylon in 597 BC, writing to a community still convinced the exile is temporary. Wheels within wheels, the glory departing, dry bones coming to life, and the city whose new name is YHWH Shammah — ‘the LORD is there.’

Author: Ezekiel, son of Buzi the priest (1:3)
Date: Dated oracles 593 BC (1:1, fifth year of Jehoiachin's exile) to 571 BC (29:17)

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4 verses on the floor

Ezekiel 40:3
And he brought me thither, and, behold, there was a man, whose appearance was like the appearance of brass, with a line of flax in his hand, and a measuring reed; and he stood in the gate.
Ezekiel 45:2
Of this there shall be for the sanctuary five hundred in length, with five hundred in breadth, square round about; and fifty cubits round about for the suburbs thereof.
Zechariah 2:1
I lifted up mine eyes again, and looked, 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 the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein.

Cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC-BY), based on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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FAIRBAIRN rightly supports English Version, which agrees with the Hebrew. The vast extent is another feature marking the ideal character of the temple. It symbolizes the great enlargement of the kingdom of God, when Jehovah-Messiah shall reign at Jerusalem, and from thence to the ends of the earth (Isa 2:2-4;

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

Thus large were the suburbs (as I may call them) of this mystical temple, signifying the great extent of the church in gospel-times, when all nations should be discipled and the kingdoms of the world made Christ's kingdoms. Room should be made in God's courts for the numerous forces of the Gentiles that shall flow into them, as was foretold, Isa. xlix.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

13 Then said he unto me, The north chambers and the south chambers, which are before the separate place, they be holy chambers, where the priests that approach unto the L ORD shall eat the most holy things: there shall they lay the most holy things, and the meat offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering; for the place is holy.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

EZE 42:16ZEC 2:1 REV 21:15
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
EZE 42:16ZEC 2:1 EZE 40:3
EZE 42:16ZEC 2:1 ZEC 1:16
EZE 42:16ZEC 2:1 EZE 40:5
EZE 42:16ZEC 2:1 EZE 47:4
EZE 42:16EZE 40:3 REV 11:1
EZE 42:16EZE 40:3 EZE 47:3
EZE 42:16EZE 40:3 EZE 1:7

The whole web at once: see the Arc.

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