Ezekiel 45:2

Of this, a square five hundred long and five hundred wide is to be for the holy place, with a space of fifty cubits all round it.

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In The King James Version

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.

In Context

1And when you are making a distribution of the land, by the decision of the Lord, for your heritage, you are to make an offering to the Lord of a part of the land as holy: it is to be twenty-five thousand long and twenty thousand wide: all the land inside these limits is to be holy.

3And of this measure, let a space be measured, twenty-five thousand long and ten thousand wide: in it there will be the holy place, even the most holy.

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Cross References

Ezekiel 27:28At the sound of the cry of your ships' guides, the boards of the ship will be shaking.

Ezekiel 42:16He went round and took the measure of it on the east side with the measuring rod, five hundred, measured with the rod all round.

Ezekiel 43:21And you are to take the ox of the sin-offering, and have it burned in the special place ordered for it in the house, outside the holy place.

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 45:2-9

The Division of the Holy Land. ( b. c. 574.) 1 Moreover, when ye shall divide by lot the land for inheritance, ye shall offer an oblation unto the Lord , a holy portion of the land: the length shall be the length of five and twenty thousand reeds, and the breadth shall be ten thousand. This shall be holy in all the borders thereof round about. 2 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. 3… Read the whole commentary →

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