The Temple's Chambers
He turned about to the west side, and measured five hundred reeds with the measuring reed. Eze 42:19
five hundred reeds... Again the Septuagint reads: "five hundred cubits with the measuring reed" instead of "five hundred reeds." The Moffatt, Berkeley, and a few other versions and most commentators agree with this rendering; but here and in versions of Fenton, Young, and Rotherham it says "reeds" or "rods." Five hundred reeds would be 5,250 feet, nearly a mile square. If reeds instead of cubits is the true measurement in this passage, then we can make a new figure of a larger plot of ground around the 500 cubits mentioned in the measurements of these chapters. The wall around it might enclose landscaping, gardens, flowers and shrubs—nothing is said about what occupies such a space. The only reference is to a difference between a profane place and the sanctuary which is definitely the 500-cubit square of these many measurements (Eze. 42:20).
the measuring reed... Again, a measure of 10 feet 6 inches, or 6 long cubits.
Again, after the angel measured everything within the temple complex, he led Ezekiel outside to record the external dimensions of the temple.
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