Ezekiel 42:16

He measured the east side with the measuring reed, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed round about. HE MEASURED THE EAST SIDE ... FIVE HUNDRED REEDS. The Septuagint substitute 'cubits' for "reeds," to escape HE MEASURED THE EAST SIDE ... FIVE HUNDRED REEDS. The Septuagint substitute 'cubits' for "reeds," to escape the immense compass assigned to the whole, namely, a square of 500 rods or 3,000 cubits (two feet each; , "a measuring reed of six cubits long") - in all, a square of one and one-seventh miles - i:e., more than all ancient Jerusalem; also, there is much space thus left unappropriated. Fairbairn rightly supports the English version, which agrees with the Hebrew. The vast extent is another feature marking the ideal character of the temple. It symbolizes the grit enlargement of the kingdom of G...

Verse 16. - 19. _HE MEASURED THE EAST - NORTH - SOUTH - WEST SIDE_] Each of which was _five hundred_ reeds: and, as the building was square, the _area_ must have been nearly _thirteen thousand_ paces. No wonder this was called a city. See Ezekiel 40:2....

The Precincts. The temple and its courts were surrounded by an area of exact dimensions 3,000 cubits (1,500 yards) square. See Plan IV. Ezekiel 42:15 THE INNER HOUSE - The temple and its courts, all that lay within the “wall on the outside of the house Ezekiel 40:5; the gate” is the eastern gate of the outer court. MEASURED IT ROUND ABOUT - The precincts, into which he had brought the seer through the eastern gate of the outer court....

EXPOSITION This chapter furnishes a brief account of the priests' chambers in the outer court (Ezekiel 42:1), and a detailed measurement of the temple precincts (Ezekiel 42:15). EZEKIEL 42:1 The priests' chambers. EZEKIEL 42:1 The survey of the house having been completed, the seer was conducted by his guide into the outer court (see on Ezekiel 40:17), by the way toward the north, _i.e._ by the inner north gate (see...

HE MEASURED THE EAST SIDE,.... He began with that, being at the east gate: the building was foursquare, and so was the wall about it, and had each four equilateral sides, which were separately measured; here the east side, from the two angles of it, the north and south points: WITH THE MEASURING REED; which consisted of six cubits, and which cubits were larger than the common sort by a hand's breadth; so that a measuring reed measured three yards and a half: and the whole measure of the east side were FIVE HUNDRED REEDS: which make one thousand seven hundred and fifty yards: WITH THE MEASURING REED ROUND ABOUT; not round about the building, since only one side, as yet, was measured; but round about that side, or from angle to angle, or from one side to the other: having finished one side, he went to another, until he had measured all round; but did not go four times round it, only onc...

CHAPTER 42 _ 1. The priest's chambers in the inner court (Ezekiel 42:1) _ 2. The final measurements (Ezekiel 42:15)...

The description of the Temple concludes with a summary of the principal measurements, according to which the whole enclosure is 500 cubits (_i.e._ 750 feet) square. According to Ezekiel 48:12, the land beyond the Temple enclosure was holy; but naturally it was less holy than the courts and buildings which stood within it. The wall, therefore, marks the boundary between that which was holy and that which was relatively profane....

Measurements of the whole complex of the temple buildings on the outside The measuring angel began by measuring the height and thickness of the outside surrounding wall (Ezekiel 40:5); then he entered the outer gate, passing into the outer court, the measurements of which were made (Ezekiel 40:6-27); then he entered the inner court, containing the house and cells, all of which he measured (Ezekiel 40:28 to Ezekiel 42:14). These measures being completed, the angel now returns to the outside by the way he entered, the eastern gate, and finishes by measuring the compass of the whole temple buildings outside. This building, its sur

REEDS— _Cubits,_ and so throughout the chapter. The LXX, Capellus, and others....

F. Total Dimensions of the Temple Area 42:15-20 TRANSLATION (15) Now when he had made an end of measuring the inner house, he brought me forth by the way of the gate whose prospect is toward the east, and measured it round about. (16) He measured on the east side with the measuring reed five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed round about. (17) He measured on the north side five hundred reeds with the measuring reed round about. (18) He measured on the south side five hundred reeds with the measuring reed. (19) He turned about to the west side, and measured five hundred reeds with the measuring reed. (20) He measured it on the four sides: it had a wall round about, the length five hundred, and the breadth five hundred, to make a separation between that which was holy and that which was common. COMMENTS The measurements of the _inner house_ including its courts and associated buildi...