Cross references

Ezekiel 40:5

And I saw a wall surrounding the temple area. Now the length of the measuring rod in the man’s hand was six long cubits (each measuring a cubit and a handbreadth), and he measured the wall to be one rod thick and one rod high.

Ezekiel 40:5 BSB
  1. a 6 long cubits, the length of the reed used for measuring, is approximately 10.5 feet or 3.2 meters; similarly in verses 6, 7, and 12. The long cubit of about 21 inches or 53.3 centimeters is the basic unit of length throughout Ezekiel 40 to 48.

Ezekiel 40:5 has 7 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 1 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Ezekiel 42:20 (7 votes) and Isaiah 26:1 (3 votes). 14 other verses point back to it. It links with 8 other books, from Deuteronomy 3 to Revelation 21.

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  1. So he measured the area on all four sides. It had a wall all around, five hundred cubits long and five hundred cubits wide, to separate the holy from the common.

  2. In that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah: We have a strong city; salvation is established as its walls and ramparts.

  3. (For only Og king of Bashan had remained of the remnant of the Rephaim. His bed of iron, nine cubits long and four cubits wide, is still in Rabbah of the Ammonites.)

  4. As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so the LORD surrounds His people, both now and forevermore.

  5. No longer will violence be heard in your land, nor ruin or destruction within your borders. But you will name your walls Salvation and your gates Praise.

  6. For I will be a wall of fire around it, declares the LORD, and I will be the glory within it.’”

  7. The city had a great and high wall with twelve gates inscribed with the names of the twelve tribes of Israel, and twelve angels at the gates.

Which verses point to Ezekiel 40:5?

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