Revelation 21:15

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The one who spoke with me had a golden measuring rod to measure the city, its gates, and its wall.

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  • Ezek 41:1-5 : 1 Then he brought me into the temple and measured the pillars: six cubits wide on one side and six cubits wide on the other side, the width of the structure. 2 The width of the entrance was ten cubits, and the sides of the entrance were five cubits on one side and five cubits on the other. He measured the length of the temple as forty cubits, and its width as twenty cubits. 3 Then he went inside and measured the jambs of the entrance, which were two cubits; the entrance itself was six cubits, and the width of the entrance was seven cubits. 4 He measured the length of the room as twenty cubits and its width as twenty cubits in front of the temple. He said to me, "This is the Most Holy Place." 5 Then he measured the wall of the temple, which was six cubits thick, and the width of the side rooms surrounding the temple was four cubits.
  • Zech 2:1 : 1 I lifted up my eyes and saw, and behold, four horns.
  • Rev 11:1-2 : 1 Then I was given a measuring rod, like a staff, and the angel stood saying, "Get up and measure the temple of God, the altar, and those who worship there. 2 But exclude the outer court of the temple and do not measure it, because it has been given to the nations, and they will trample on the holy city for forty-two months.
  • Exod 40:3-5 : 3 Place the ark of the testimony there and shield the ark with the curtain. 4 Bring in the table and arrange its items, bring in the lampstand and set up its lamps. 5 Place the golden altar for incense in front of the ark of the testimony, and put the screen for the entrance to the Tabernacle.

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  • Rev 21:16-19
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    16The city was laid out as a square; its length was as great as its width. He measured the city with the rod: twelve thousand stadia. Its length, width, and height were equal.

    17He measured its wall to be one hundred forty-four cubits, by human measurement, which is also an angel’s measurement.

    18The wall was made of jasper, and the city of pure gold, as clear as glass.

    19The foundations of the city walls were adorned with every kind of precious stone. The first foundation was jasper, the second sapphire, the third chalcedony, the fourth emerald,

  • Rev 11:1-2
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    1Then I was given a measuring rod, like a staff, and the angel stood saying, "Get up and measure the temple of God, the altar, and those who worship there.

    2But exclude the outer court of the temple and do not measure it, because it has been given to the nations, and they will trample on the holy city for forty-two months.

  • Rev 21:10-14
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    10And he carried me away in the Spirit to a great, high mountain and showed me the holy city, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God.

    11It shone with the glory of God, and its radiance was like a very precious jewel, like jasper, clear as crystal.

    12It had a great, high wall with twelve gates, and at the gates were twelve angels, and on the gates were written the names of the twelve tribes of the sons of Israel.

    13There were three gates on the east, three on the north, three on the south, and three on the west.

    14The wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them were the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.

  • Zech 2:1-2
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    1I lifted up my eyes and saw, and behold, four horns.

    2I asked the angel who was speaking with me, 'What are these?' And he said to me, 'These are the horns that scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.'

  • Rev 21:21-23
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    21The twelve gates were twelve pearls, each gate made of a single pearl. The great street of the city was of pure gold, like transparent glass.

    22I did not see a temple in the city, because the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple.

    23The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, because the glory of God gives it light, and the Lamb is its lamp.

  • Ezek 40:5-9
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    5Behold, a wall surrounded the temple area. The measuring rod in the man’s hand was six long cubits, each cubit being a cubit and a handbreadth. He measured the width of the structure as one rod and its height as one rod.

    6Then he went to the gateway that faced east, climbed its steps, and measured the threshold of the gate as one rod wide.

    7Each guardroom was one rod long and one rod wide, and the space between the guardrooms was five cubits. The threshold of the gateway at the porch of the gate, located toward the inside, was also one rod.

    8He measured the porch of the gateway, which faced the interior, as one rod.

    9He measured the porch of the gate as eight cubits, and its pilasters as two cubits. The porch of the gate faced inward.

  • Ezek 40:2-3
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    2In visions of God, He brought me to the land of Israel and set me down on a very high mountain, on which was something like the form of a city facing toward the south.

    3He brought me there, and behold, there was a man whose appearance was like bronze, with a line of flax in his hand and a measuring rod, and he was standing in the gateway.

  • Ezek 40:35
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    35He brought me to the north gate and measured it. Its dimensions were the same as the others.

  • Ezek 40:32
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    32Then he brought me to the inner courtyard, facing east, measured the gate, and its dimensions were the same as the others.

  • Ezek 42:15-20
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    15When he had finished measuring the inner temple area, he brought me out through the gate that faced east, and he measured all around the area.

    16He measured the eastern side with the measuring reed; it was five hundred rods with the measuring reed all around.

    17He measured the northern side; it was five hundred rods with the measuring reed all around.

    18He measured the southern side; it was five hundred rods with the measuring reed.

    19Finally, he turned to the western side and measured five hundred rods with the measuring reed.

    20He measured it on all four sides. It had a wall all around, five hundred rods long and five hundred rods wide, to separate the holy from the common.

  • Ezek 48:16-17
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    16These are its measurements: the northern side shall be 4,500 cubits wide, the southern side 4,500 cubits, the eastern side 4,500 cubits, and the western side 4,500 cubits.

    17The city's open land shall measure 250 cubits to the north, 250 cubits to the south, 250 cubits to the east, and 250 cubits to the west.

  • Ezek 40:27-28
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    27A gate to the inner courtyard facing south was opposite this gate. He measured from gate to gate, and it was one hundred cubits.

    28Then he brought me through the south gate into the inner courtyard, where he measured this gate, and it had the same dimensions as the others.

  • Rev 21:2
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    2And I, John, saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

  • Ezek 48:30
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    30These are the exits of the city: on the north side, which measures 4,500 cubits,

  • Ezek 40:11
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    11He measured the width of the gate opening as ten cubits and the length of the gateway as thirteen cubits.

  • Ezek 40:23-24
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    23There was a gate to the inner courtyard opposite the northern and the eastern gates, and he measured the distance—one hundred cubits from gate to gate.

    24Then he led me southward, where I saw a gate facing south. He measured its posts and its porches, and their dimensions matched those of the others.

  • Ezek 40:48
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    48Then he brought me to the porch of the temple and measured the pilasters of the porch; they were five cubits on one side and five cubits on the other. The width of the entrance was three cubits on each side.

  • Ezek 40:18-21
    4 verses
    72%

    18The pavement ran alongside the gates, corresponding to the length of the gates; this was the lower pavement.

    19Then he measured the distance from the front of the lower gateway to the front of the inner courtyard's gate; it was one hundred cubits eastward and northward.

    20He measured a gate that faced north, belonging to the outer courtyard. Its length and width were measured.

    21Its guardrooms—three on each side—its posts and its porches had the same dimensions as the first gate, fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.

  • Ezek 40:13
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    13He measured the gateway from the roof of one guardroom to the roof of the opposite one; the width was twenty-five cubits. Doorway faced doorway.

  • Rev 21:25
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    25Its gates will never be shut by day, and there will be no night there.

  • Ezek 41:3
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    3Then he went inside and measured the jambs of the entrance, which were two cubits; the entrance itself was six cubits, and the width of the entrance was seven cubits.

  • Ezek 45:3
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    3From this measured area, you are to measure twenty-five thousand cubits in length and ten thousand cubits in width. Within it will be the sanctuary, the Most Holy Place.

  • Zech 5:2
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    2He said to me, 'What do you see?' I answered, 'I see a flying scroll, twenty cubits long and ten cubits wide.'