Ezekiel 42:17
in Ezekiel 42He measured the north side to be five hundred cubits long.
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
He measured on the north side five hundred reeds with the measuring reed round about.
KJV
He measured the north side, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed round about.
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This verse in Ezekiel 42
Commentary
6 notes on this verse(Verse 15 onwards) When he had finished measuring the interior dimensions of the house, he led me along the way of the gate that faced east, and he measured it all around. (He measured the likeness of the house all around in order.) He measured the east side with the measuring rod; it was 500 rods long by the measuring rod all around. (He also measured the north side, south side, and west side.) And he measured against the north wind, five hundred cubits, measuring with a cubit in circumference.
This site's exposition
had finished measuring the interior
on Ezekiel 42:15-20
The inner survey ends. The rod goes around the whole: five hundred cubits, a square with a wall all around, “to separate the holy from the common”. The glory left a defiled house at 11:23, and this wall is set two chapters before its return at 43:4.
This site's exposition
the north side
The north side matches the east. Jerome traces the rod going around in order, east, north, south, then west. Matthew Henry reads the size of this enclosure as room made in God's courts for the Gentiles who would come into them, citing Isaiah 49.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices
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.
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.
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He measured the north side, five hundred reeds,.... From the two angles of that side, east and west; and it was of the same dimension as the east side, just five hundred reeds, or one thousand seven hundred and fifty yards: with a measuring reed round about; he measured with the same reed, from point to point; and having measured this side, he went to another.
The words behind it
9 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| מָדַ֖ד | madad | he measured | H4058 → | 51 times |
| ר֣וּחַ | ruach | [the] side of | H7307 → | 378 times |
| הַצָּפ֑וֹן | hatzafon | the north | H6828 → | 153 times |
| חֲמֵשׁ־ | chamesh- | five | H2568 → | 343 times |
| מֵא֥וֹת | meot | hundred<s> | H3967 → | 581 times |
| קָנִ֛ים | kanim | reeds | H7070 → | 62 times |
| בִּקְנֵ֥ה | bikneh | by [the] reed of | H7070 → | 62 times |
| הַמִּדָּ֖ה | hamidah | <the> measurement | H4060 → | 55 times |
| סָבִֽיב׃ | saviv | all around | H5439 → | 336 times |
מָדַ֖דhe measured
madadH4058 →51 times
ר֣וּחַ[the] side of
ruachH7307 →378 times
הַצָּפ֑וֹןthe north
hatzafonH6828 →153 times
חֲמֵשׁ־five
chamesh-H2568 →343 times
מֵא֥וֹתhundred<s>
meotH3967 →581 times
קָנִ֛יםreeds
kanimH7070 →62 times
בִּקְנֵ֥הby [the] reed of
biknehH7070 →62 times
הַמִּדָּ֖ה<the> measurement
hamidahH4060 →55 times
סָבִֽיב׃all around
savivH5439 →336 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
About Ezekiel
This page draws on Jerome, Commentary on Ezekiel; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and Patrick Fairbairn, An Exposition of Ezekiel.