16
He measured on the east side with the measuring reed five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed all around.
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ExplanationCommentary
Verse 16. Five. Hebrew emoth should be meoth, “three hundred, as it is printed (yet not in the Prot. version. Bible.) thrice just after, and as it is written here in MS. 4. Camb. 1. 2.” Kennicott.—Reeds. Septuagint “cubits,” as Hebrew Saint Jerome and so forth insinuate. The mountain was only five hundred paces square, even when it was enlarged in the time of Josephus. Bel. vi. 14. Gr.—We must therefore read cubits. Calmet.—If we retain reeds, ( Bible.) the wall will be twelve thousand cubits, ( Menochius.) which seems improbable. Tournemine. See Calmet. 45. Bible.
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