Ezekiel 48:30

Overview - Ezekiel 48
1	The portions of the twelve tribes;
8	of the sanctuary;
15	of the city and suburbs;
21	and of the prince.
23	The portions of the twelve tribes.
30	The dimensions and gates of the city.

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Ezekiel 48:30 (King James Version)
And these are the goings out of the city on the north side, four thousand and five hundred measures.

the goings: Ezekiel 48:16 Ezekiel 48:32-35 ; Revelation 21:16
four: It is certainly most obvious to interpret these measures, not of cubits, but of the measuring reed which the prophet's conductor had in his hand; according to which, the city would be about thirty-six miles in circumference, and nine miles on each side of the square; which was nearly nine times larger than the greatest extent to which Jerusalem ever attained, (See on ver; 15; ch. 42:16 .) The large dimensions of the city; and land were perhaps intended to intimate the extensive and glorious propagation of the gospel in the times predicted; and the land was not called Canaan, nor the city Jerusalem, probably because they were figurative of spiritual blessings to the church and to Israel.