Revelation 21:17

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

He also measured its wall, one hundred forty-four cubits according to human measurement, which is also the angel’s.

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 3:11 : 11 Only King Og of Bashan was left of the remaining Rephaites.(It is noteworthy that his sarcophagus was made of iron. Does it not, indeed, still remain in Rabbath of the Ammonites? It is thirteen and a half feet long and six feet wide according to standard measure.)
  • Rev 7:4 : 4 Now I heard the number of those who were marked with the seal, one hundred and forty-four thousand, sealed from all the tribes of the people of Israel:
  • Rev 13:18 : 18 This calls for wisdom: Let the one who has insight calculate the beast’s number, for it is man’s number, and his number is 666.
  • Rev 14:3 : 3 and they were singing a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and the elders. No one was able to learn the song except the one hundred and forty-four thousand who had been redeemed from the earth.
  • Rev 21:9 : 9 The New Jerusalem Descends Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven final plagues came and spoke to me, saying,“Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb!”

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  • Rev 21:14-16
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    14The wall of the city has twelve foundations, and on them are the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.

    15The angel who spoke to me had a golden measuring rod with which to measure the city and its foundation stones and wall.

    16Now the city is laid out as a square, its length and width the same. He measured the city with the measuring rod at fourteen hundred miles(its length and width and height are equal).

  • 18The city’s wall is made of jasper and the city is pure gold, like transparent glass.

  • Ezek 40:5-6
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    79%

    5I saw a wall all around the outside of the temple. In the man’s hand was a measuring stick 10½ feet long. He measured the thickness of the wall as 10½ feet, and its height as 10½ feet.

    6Then he went to the gate facing east. He climbed its steps and measured the threshold of the gate as 10½ feet deep.

  • Zech 2:1-2
    2 verses
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    1Vision Three: The Surveyor(2:5) I looked again, and there was a man with a measuring line in his hand.

    2I asked,“Where are you going?” He replied,“To measure Jerusalem in order to determine its width and its length.”

  • Rev 11:1-2
    2 verses
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    1The Fate of the Two Witnesses Then a measuring rod like a staff was given to me, and I was told,“Get up and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and the ones who worship there.

    2But do not measure the outer courtyard of the temple; leave it out, because it has been given to the Gentiles, and they will trample on the holy city for forty-two months.

  • Rev 21:10-12
    3 verses
    76%

    10So he took me away in the Spirit to a huge, majestic mountain and showed me the holy city, Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God.

    11The city possesses the glory of God; its brilliance is like a precious jewel, like a stone of crystal-clear jasper.

    12It has a massive, high wall with twelve gates, with twelve angels at the gates, and the names of the twelve tribes of the nation of Israel are written on the gates.

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    12The building that was facing the temple courtyard at the west side was 122½ feet wide; the wall of the building was 8¾ feet thick all around, and its length 157½ feet.

    13Then he measured the temple as 175 feet long, the courtyard of the temple and the building and its walls as 175 feet long,

    14and also the width of the front of the temple and the courtyard on the east as 175 feet.

    15Then he measured the length of the building facing the courtyard at the rear of the temple, with its galleries on either side as 175 feet. The interior of the outer sanctuary and the porch of the court,

  • Ezek 41:1-5
    5 verses
    75%

    1The Inner Temple Then he brought me to the outer sanctuary, and measured the jambs; the jambs were 10½ feet wide on each side.

    2The width of the entrance was 17½ feet, and the sides of the entrance were 8¾ feet on each side. He measured the length of the outer sanctuary as 70 feet, and its width as 35 feet.

    3Then he went into the inner sanctuary and measured the jambs of the entrance as 3½ feet, the entrance as 10½ feet, and the width of the entrance as 12¼ feet.

    4Then he measured its length as 35 feet, and its width as 35 feet, before the outer sanctuary. He said to me,“This is the most holy place.”

    5Then he measured the wall of the temple as 10½ feet, and the width of the side chambers as 7 feet, all around the temple.

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    16these will be its measurements: The north side will be one and one-half miles, the south side one and one-half miles, the east side one and one-half miles, and the west side one and one-half miles.

    17The city will have open spaces: On the north there will be 437½ feet, on the south 437½ feet, on the east 437½ feet, and on the west 437½ feet.

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    19Then he measured the width from before the lower gate to the front of the exterior of the inner court as 175 feet on the east and on the north.

    20He measured the length and width of the gate of the outer court which faces north.

  • 32Then he brought me to the inner court on the east side. He measured the gate; it had the same dimensions as the others.

  • 35Then he brought me to the north gate, and he measured it; it had the same dimensions as the others–

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    23Opposite the gate on the north and the east was a gate of the inner court; he measured the distance from gate to gate at 175 feet.

    24Then he led me toward the south. I saw a gate on the south. He measured its jambs and its porches; they had the same dimensions as the others.

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    19He turned to the west side and measured 875 feet by the measuring stick.

    20He measured it on all four sides. It had a wall around it, 875 feet long and 875 feet wide, to separate the holy and common places.

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    47He measured the court as a square 175 feet long and 175 feet wide; the altar was in front of the temple.

    48Then he brought me to the porch of the temple and measured the jambs of the porch as 8¾ feet on either side, and the width of the gate was 24½ feet and the sides were 5¼ feet on each side.

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    11He measured the width of the entrance of the gateway as 17½ feet, and the length of the gateway as 22¾ feet.

    12There was a barrier in front of the alcoves, 1¾ feet on either side; the alcoves were 10½ feet on either side.

    13He measured the gateway from the roof of one alcove to the roof of the other, a width of 43¾ feet from one entrance to the opposite one.

  • 3When he brought me there, I saw a man whose appearance was like bronze, with a linen cord and a measuring stick in his hand. He was standing in the gateway.

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    27The inner court had a gate toward the south; he measured it from gate to gate toward the south as 175 feet.

    28Then he brought me to the inner court by the south gate. He measured the south gate; it had the same dimensions as the others.

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    15Now when he had finished measuring the interior of the temple, he led me out by the gate which faces east and measured all around.

    16He measured the east side with the measuring stick as 875 feet by the measuring stick.

    17He measured the north side as 875 feet by the measuring stick.

  • Ezek 40:8-9
    2 verses
    72%

    8Then he measured the porch of the gate facing inward as 10½ feet.

    9He measured the porch of the gate as 14 feet, and its jambs as 3½ feet; the porch of the gate faced inward.

  • 21And the twelve gates are twelve pearls– each one of the gates is made from just one pearl! The main street of the city is pure gold, like transparent glass.

  • 17to the space above the entrance, to the inner room, and on the outside, and on all the walls in the inner room and outside, by measurement.

  • 30“These are the exits of the city: On the north side, one and one-half miles by measure,

  • 22In the four corners of the court were small courts, 70 feet in length and 52½ feet in width; the four were all the same size.

  • 3When the man went out toward the east with a measuring line in his hand, he measured 1,750 feet, and then he led me through water, which was ankle deep.