16He measured the east side with the measuring reed, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed round about.
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And he brought me thither, and, behold, there was a man, whose appearance was like the appearance of brass, with a line of flax in his hand, and a measuring reed; and he stood in the gate.
And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein. …
I lifted up mine eyes again, and looked, and behold a man with a measuring line in his hand.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 15-20)We have attended the measuring of this mystical temple and are now to see how far the holy ground on which we tread extends; and that also is here measured, and found to take in a great compass. Observe, 1. What the dimensions of it were. It extended each way 500 reeds (Ezek. 42:16-19), each reed above three yards and a half, so that it reached every way about an English measured mile, which, the…
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