5And behold a wall on the outside of the house round about, and in the man's hand a measuring reed of six cubits long by the cubit and an hand breadth: so he measured the breadth of the building, one reed; and the height, one reed.
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Matthew Henry
(vv. 5-26)The measuring-reed which was in the hand of the surveyor-general was mentioned before, Ezek. 40:3. Here we are told (Ezek. 40:5) what was the exact length of it, which must be observed, because the house was measured by it. It was six cubits long , reckoning, not by the common cubit, but the cubit of the sanctuary , the sacred cubit, by which it was fit that this holy house should be measured, and...
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