Ezekiel 48:8
Adjacent to Judah's allocation, from east to west, is the special area you are to make provision for. It is to be 25,000 cubits wide, and extend the same length as a tribal allocation from east to west. The sanctuary will be in the middle of it.
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In Context
7Judah's allocation borders that of Reuben from east to west.
9The special allocation you make is for the Lord and shall be 25,000 cubits by 10,000 cubits.
Cross References
Isaiah 12:6Shout loudly and sing for joy, you people of Zion, for the Holy One of Israel is great, and is among you.”
Ezekiel 45:1When you allocate the land ownership by lot, you are to make a provision for the Lord, a holy allocation of the land that measures 25,000 cubits long and 20,000 cubits wide. This whole area is holy.
Ezekiel 48:35The distance around the outside of the city will be 18,000 cubits. From that day on the name of the city will be “The Lord Is There.”
2 Corinthians 6:16What compromise could the Temple of God make with idols? For we are a temple of the living God, just as God said: “I will live in them and walk among them. I will be their God, and they will be my people.”
Colossians 2:9For the fullness of God's divine nature lives in Christ in bodily form,
Revelation 21:22I did not see a temple there, because the Lord God the All-powerful One, and the Lamb, they are its temple.
Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 48:2-31
The Division of the Land. ( b. c. 574.) 1 Now these are the names of the tribes. From the north end to the coast of the way of Hethlon, as one goeth to Hamath, Hazar-enan, the border of Damascus northward, to the coast of Hamath; for these are his sides east and west; a portion for Dan. 2 And by the border of Dan, from the east side unto the west side, a portion for Asher. 3 And by the border of Asher, from the east side even unto the west side, a portion for Naphtali. 4 And by the border of Naphtali, from the… Read the whole commentary →