Of this there shall be for the sanctuary five hundred in length, with five hundred in breadth, square round about; and fifty cubits round about for the suburbs thereof.
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Gill's Exposition
Of this there shall be for the sanctuary,.... Or temple, the house before described in the preceding chapters:
five hundred in length, and five hundred in breadth, square round about: that is, five…
Barnes' Notes
The “sanctuary” here probably means the whole temple precincts. Suburbs - literally, as margin. To mark out more distinctly the sacred precincts, a vacant space of fifty cubits was left on all sides.
Adam Clarke
Of this there shall be for the sanctuary - See the plan, A.
Directions are here given for the dividing of the land after their return to it; and, God having warranted them to do it, would be an act of faith, and not of folly, thus to divide it before they had…
Cambridge Bible
In this sacred territory, more particularly, in the half of it assigned to the priests (Eze 45:3-4), shall the sanctuary be situated, a square of 500, surrounded by a free space of 50 cubits on all…