Ezekiel 42:18
in Ezekiel 42He measured the south side to be five hundred cubits long.
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
He measured on the south side five hundred reeds with the measuring reed.
KJV
He measured the south side, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed.
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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 south side
The south side gives the same figure again. Each side is measured and named, four statements where one would have sufficed, and Jerome keeps that order in his account of the rod's circuit. The repetition leaves no side of the sanctuary unmeasured.
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.
quarantine:scripture (2026-07-29) — scripture-overlap:97%@v13
He measured the south side, five hundred reeds,.... From the two angles of that side, east and west; and it amounted to just the same number of reeds, even five hundred reeds, or one thousand seven hundred and fifty yards: with the measuring reed; the same as before; here, and in the next verse, the phrase "round about" is not used, but is to be understood; and having been repeated, there was no need of mentioning it again.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| אֵ֛ת | ʾet | <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| ר֥וּחַ | ruach | [the] side of | H7307 → | 378 times |
| הַדָּר֖וֹם | hadarom | the south | H1864 → | 17 times |
| מָדָ֑ד | madad | he measured | H4058 → | 51 times |
| חֲמֵשׁ־ | chamesh- | five | H2568 → | 343 times |
| מֵא֥וֹת | meot | hundred<s> | H3967 → | 581 times |
| קָנִ֖ים | kanim | reeds | H7070 → | 62 times |
| בִּקְנֵ֥ה | bikneh | by [the] reed of | H7070 → | 62 times |
| הַמִּדָּֽה׃ | hamidah | <the> measurement | H4060 → | 55 times |
אֵ֛ת<obj.>
ʾetH853 →10935 times
ר֥וּחַ[the] side of
ruachH7307 →378 times
הַדָּר֖וֹםthe south
hadaromH1864 →17 times
מָדָ֑דhe measured
madadH4058 →51 times
חֲמֵשׁ־five
chamesh-H2568 →343 times
מֵא֥וֹתhundred<s>
meotH3967 →581 times
קָנִ֖יםreeds
kanimH7070 →62 times
בִּקְנֵ֥הby [the] reed of
biknehH7070 →62 times
הַמִּדָּֽה׃<the> measurement
hamidahH4060 →55 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.