Visions of the Kingdom: Week 45

Ezekiel 42:1-20: The Priests' Chambers

• 42:16 "500 cubits" - the Hebrew actually says "reeds", i.e. the measuring reed introduced in Chapter 40. The reason ESV and some other translations say "cubit" is because the LXX translates as cubit here. If you go with the Hebrew, the temple area is almost exactly a mile square. This reminds us of Revelation.
• 42:20

  "The entire area was much too large for Mount Moriah where Solomon’s and Zerubbabel’s temples stood. The scheme requires a great change in the topography of the land which will occur as indicated in Zechariah 14:9-11, the very time which Ezekiel had in view." Feinberg