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Revelation 21:16 KJV
Revelation · chapter 21 · verse 16
And the city lieth foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs. The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal.Revelation 21:16 · King James Version
Revelation 21:16 in context
14And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.
15And he that talked with me had a golden reed to measure the city, and the gates thereof, and the wall thereof.
16And the city lieth foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs. The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal.
17And he measured the wall thereof, an hundred and forty and four cubits, according to the measure of a man, that is, of the angel.
18And the building of the wall of it was of jasper: and the city was pure gold, like unto clear glass.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- foursquaretetragōnosquadrangular, squareG5068 →
- measuredmetreōto measure, to measure out or off, any space or distance with a measurer s reed or rule…G3354 →
- breadthplatosbreadth, suggesting great extentG4114 →
- lengthmēkoslengthG3372 →
- lengthautoshimself, herself, themselves, itself, he, she, it, the sameG846 →
- liethkeimaito lie, of an infant, of one buried, of things that quietly cover some spot, of a city…G2749 →
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We have already considered the introduction to the vision of the new Jerusalem in a more general idea of the heavenly state; we now come to the vision itself, where observe, I. The person that opened the vision to the apostle - one of the seven angels, that had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues, Rev 21:9.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 9-27