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Ezekiel 42:16
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14 aWhen the priests enter them, they shall not go out of the holy chamber into the outer court; but there they shall leave their garments in which they minister, for they are holy. They shall put on other garments; then they may approach that which is for the people.”  

Outer Dimensions of the Temple

15 Now when he had finished measuring the inner1 temple, he brought me out through the gateway that faces toward the aeast, and measured it all around.  
16 He measured the east side with the1 measuring rod, five hundred rods by the measuring rod all around.  
17 He measured the north side, five hundred rods by the measuring rod all around.
18 He measured the south side, five hundred rods by the measuring rod.
19 He came around to the west side and measured five hundred rods by the measuring rod.
20 He measured it on the four sides; ait had a wall all around, bfive hundred cubits long and five hundred wide, to separate the holy areas from the1 common. 
Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Ezekiel 42:16

five hundred reeds—the Septuagint substitutes "cubits" for "reeds," to escape the immense compass assigned to the whole, namely, a square of five hundred rods or three thousand cubits (two feet each; Ezekiel 40:5), in all a square of one and one-seventh miles, that is, more than all ancient Jerusalem; also, there is much space thus left unappropriated. FAIRBAIRN rightly supports English Version, which agrees with the Hebrew. The vast extent is another feature marking the ideal character of the temple. It symbolizes the great enlargement of the kingdom of God, when Jehovah-Messiah shall reign at Jerusalem, and from thence to the ends of the earth (Isaiah 2:2-4; Jeremiah 3:17; Romans 11:12, Romans 11:15).




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