Ezekiel 42:16 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ He measured the east sideb with the measuring reed, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed round about. ”

• Ezekiel 42:16 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  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 co...

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• Ezekiel 42:16 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Ezekiel 42:16 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  He measured the east side with the measuring reed, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed round about. He measured the east - north - south - west side - Each of which was five hundred reeds: an...

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• Ezekiel 42:16 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Reeds— Cubits, and so throughout the chapter. The LXX, Capellus, and others.

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• Ezekiel 42:16 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  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...

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• Ezekiel 42:16 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The New Temple Ezekiel, transported in vision to Palestine, is set down on the N. side of the Temple mountain, and sees the Temple buildings extending to the S. like a city. A supernatural figure,...

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• Ezekiel 42:16 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  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 mi...

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• Ezekiel 42:16 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  THE SANCTUARY THE fundamental idea of the theocracy as conceived by Ezekiel is the literal dwelling of Jehovah in the midst of His people. The Temple is in the first instance Jehovah's palace, whe...

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• Ezekiel 42:16 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  The next section of description deals with the general scheme of buildings surrounding the Temple proper. On the north and south sides were chambers, which are described. These were the holy chambers...

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• Ezekiel 42:16 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  There is somewhat particularly striking in the account here given of the holy chambers, and the uses intended for them. In the Hebrew the expression is beautiful; they are the holinesses of holinesse...

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• Ezekiel 42:16 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  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 meas...

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• Ezekiel 42:16 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  He measured the east side with the measuring reed, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed round about. Ver. 16. Five hundred reeds. ] Lo, here the large extent of the Holy Catholic Church, th...

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• Ezekiel 42:16 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  When he had made an end of measuring the inner house The inner house denotes the temple, distinguished from the courts about it; he measured the east side , &c. This and the following verses c...

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• Ezekiel 42:16 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Vision of the Temple. B. C. 574.       15 Now when he had made an end of measuring the i...

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• Ezekiel 42:16 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  He, the angel, or Christ in the appearance of a man, measured the east side, from the two opposite angles of the inside north and south, with the measuring reed, which was of six cubits and one h...

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• Ezekiel 42:16 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  The External Dimensions of the Temple Area ( Ezekiel 42:15-20 ). ‘Now when he had finished measuring the inner house he brought me out by way of the gate whose prospect is towards the east, and me...

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• Ezekiel 42:16 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  THE CHAMBERS OF THE PRIESTS. (Chap. 42) EXEGETICAL NOTES.— Ezekiel 42:1 . “Into the chamber” —to the chambers; the Hebrew is a collective noun. “The building towards the north.” The direction in...

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• Ezekiel 42:16 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Ezekiel 42:4 . Before the chambers was a walk of ten cubits. This chapter describes the rows of chambers as a hundred cubits long, and an entrance of one cubit on each side, which make the way two...

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• Ezekiel 42:16 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION This chapter furnishes a brief account of the priests' chambers in the outer court ( Ezekiel 42:1-26 ), and a detailed measurement of the temple precincts ( Ezekiel 42:15-26 ). Eze...

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• Ezekiel 42:16 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Outside Measurements

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• Ezekiel 42:16 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Ezekiel 40:3 ; Revelation 11:1 ; Revelation 11:2 ; Zechariah 2:1

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