Revelation 21:17

He measured also the wall of it a hundred and forty-four cubits, according to the measure of a man, for such is that of an angel.

Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament

In The King James Version

And he measured the wall thereof, an hundred and forty and four cubits, according to the measure of a man, that is, of the angel.

In Context

16And the city is a quadrangle, and the breadth of it is just as much as the length of it; and he measured the city with the cane, twelve thousand furlongs: the breadth, and the length, and the height of it, are exactly proportioned.

18The structure of the wall of it was jasper, and the city pure gold, like clear glass.

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Cross References

Revelation 7:4And I heard the number of those who were sealed; one hundred and forty and four thousand were sealed out of every tribe of the children of Israel.

Revelation 14:3and they sang as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four living beings, and the presbyters: and no person could learn that song, but the hundred forty-four thousand, who were redeemed from the earth.

Matthew Henry on Revelation 21:10-27

The New Jerusalem. ( a. d. 95.) 9 And there came unto me one of the seven angels which had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues, and talked with me, saying, Come hither, I will show thee the bride, the Lamb's wife. 10 And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God, 11 Having the glory of God: and her light was like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal; 12 And had a… Read the whole commentary →

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