1And 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.
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And he that talked with me had a golden reed to measure the city, and the gates thereof, and the wall thereof.
Now when he had made an end of measuring the inner house, he brought me forth toward the gate whose prospect is toward the east, and measured it round about. …
I lifted up mine eyes again, and looked, and behold a man with a measuring line in his hand. …
In the five and twentieth year of our captivity, in the beginning of the year, in the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after that the city was smitten, in the selfsame day the hand of the LORD was upon me, and brought me thither. …
Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-2)This prophetical passage about measuring the temple is a plain reference to what we find in Ezekiel’s vision, Ezek. 40:3 But how to understand either the one or the other is not so easy. It should seem the design of measuring the temple in the former case was in order to the rebuilding of it, and that with advantage; the design of this measurement seems to be either, 1. For the preservation of it…
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