Ezekiel 48:9

9 “The area set aside for the LORD ’s Temple will be 8 miles long and 6 miles wide.

Ezekiel 48:9 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 48:9

The oblation that ye shall offer to the Lord
That which belonged to the sanctuary, and to the priests, which was taken and separated for that use; which here, and in the following verses, is particularly and separately considered: shall be of five and twenty thousand in length;
that is, five and twenty thousand reeds from east to west: and of ten thousand in breadth;
from north to south; see ( Ezekiel 45:3 ) .

Ezekiel 48:9 In-Context

7 and then Judah, all of whose boundaries extend from east to west.

8 “South of Judah is the land set aside for a special purpose. It will be 8 miles wide and will extend as far east and west as the tribal territories, with the Temple at the center.

9 “The area set aside for the LORD ’s Temple will be 8 miles long and 6 miles wide.

10 For the priests there will be a strip of land measuring 8 miles long by 3 miles wide, with the LORD ’s Temple at the center.

11 This area is set aside for the ordained priests, the descendants of Zadok who served me faithfully and did not go astray with the people of Israel and the rest of the Levites.

Footnotes

• [a]. As in one Greek manuscript and the Greek reading in 45:1 : 25,000 [cubits] [13.3 kilometers] long and 20,000 [cubits] [10.6 kilometers] wide; Hebrew reads 25,000 [cubits] long and 10,000 [cubits] [3 miles or 5.3 kilometers] wide. Similarly in 48:13b . Compare 45:1-5 ; 48:10-13 .