6Then came he unto the gate which looketh toward the east, and went up the stairs thereof, and measured the threshold of the gate, which was one reed broad; and the other threshold of the gate, which was one reed broad.
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Commentary
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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