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- Ezekiel
- Chapter 48
- Verse 35
It was round about eighteen thousand measures: and the name of the city from that day shall be, The LORD is there.
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Barnes' Notes
The circuit of the city walls, a square of 4500 reeds, was 18,000 reeds, not quite 37 English miles. The circuit of Jerusalem in the time of Josephus was reckoned by him to be about four miles. The…
Adam Clarke
The name of the city from that day shall be, The Lord is there - It would have been better to have retained the original words: -
יהוה שמה
Yehovah Shammah.
This is an allusion to the shechinah, or…
We have here a further account of the city that should be built for the metropolis of this glorious land, and to be the receptacle of those who would come from all parts to worship in the sanctuary…
Cambridge Bible
The whole circumference of the city was 18,000 cubits, or some-what under six miles. Josephus (Bell. Jud. Eze 48:4; Eze 48:3) reckoned the bounds of Jerusalem in his day at 33 stadia, or about four…
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