And these are the goings out of the city on the north side, four thousand and five hundred measures.
The vision shows the city foursquare, eighteen thousand cubits round about, with three gates on each of its four sides. To the Jews for whom Ezekiel wrote, this perfect mathematical regularity, tribes in even lots, the city and temple set out as if by a single hand with power to effect it, conveyed the most complete idea they could conceive of the most perfect church, commonwealth, and worship.
AI summary
The city's dimensions are given with exactness on all four sides, each 4,500 rods, for a total circuit of 18,000. The twelve gates bear the tribes' names in orderly fashion. But the name that matters is this: Jehovah is there. That is the city's true designation and its glory.
AI summary
Commenting on Ezekiel 48:30-35