Verse Lens · Expanded explanation
Ezekiel 48:35 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 35. 35It was round about eighteen thousand measures: and the name of the city from that day shall be, The LORD is there.
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Quick Meaning
The measured city closes the book with the name The LORD Is There.
Three gates on a side, named for the tribes
This verse is one part of that explanation in Ezekiel 48:30–35. The complete section carries the connected meaning and how it should shape life.
Read It With
- Ezekiel 48:30–35
Read Ezekiel 48:35 with 48:30–35. By itself, “It was round about eighteen thousand measures” can be detached from the speaker, addressee, date, exilic horizon, visionary movement, or outcome that gives it force. The complete unit establishes: The city's four sides each hold three gates named for Israel's tribes, and the closing name declares the LORD's presence there.
Why This Verse Appears Here
Within the same chapter, this unit advances from “The Prince's Portion and Five Southern Tribes Complete the Land” into “Twelve Named Gates Surround the City Called The LORD Is There.” Its non-interchangeable contribution is: The city's four sides each hold three gates named for Israel's tribes, and the closing name declares the LORD's presence there. This verse's placement is specific: The measured city closes the book with the name The LORD Is There.
Follow the Context
- The unit begins at 48:30 with the address, action, vision, lament, or measurement named in its title.
- The city's four sides each hold three gates named for Israel's tribes, and the closing name declares the LORD's presence there.
- By 48:35 the movement reaches its stated warning, promise, response, or transition before the next unit begins.
What This Verse Is Not Saying
“The LORD is there” does not identify a present capital as the final city or prove exclusive divine ownership.
What Remains True
The book closes by naming restored presence rather than a king, battle, or human achievement. In Ezekiel 48:35, that bounded truth is carried through this verse's role: The measured city closes the book with the name The LORD Is There.
How It Can Shape Life
- Let presence be tested by justice, holiness, welcome, and life rather than territorial triumph. This verse directs that response through its exact role: The measured city closes the book with the name The LORD Is There.
Teach It Back
Explain Ezekiel 48:35's precise role in Ezekiel 48:30–35: The measured city closes the book with the name The LORD Is There. State how “Twelve Named Gates Surround the City Called The LORD Is There” controls the line, keep this uncertainty visible—The city name does not identify a present capital as the final vision, erase Israel's tribes, or authorize exclusion from divine presence.—trace role to contextual meaning to enduring truth to application, and reject one use the verse does not authorize.
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Continue in Context
Read the complete section for the connected explanation and how it should shape life. This verse is a doorway into that passage, not a saying that stands alone.
Read Ezekiel 48:30–35 — Twelve Named Gates Surround the City Called The LORD Is ThereSources used for this Verse Lens
How certain is this explanation? probable
Where care is needed
Responsible readings differ over composition, rhetoric, historical reconstruction, symbol, and later reception. The preferred reading follows the complete unit and received-book placement while preserving this limit: The city name does not identify a present capital as the final vision, erase Israel's tribes, or authorize exclusion from divine presence.
These are the sources used directly for this lens. Language, grammar, disagreements, and the complete source shelf remain attached to the full thought-unit research record.
Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, verse order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete thought-unit coverage.
Exact location: Ezekiel 48:30–35, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Ezekiel
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording and morphology checked at the exact unit without treating morphology as a critical apparatus or interpretation.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Ezek.xml, OSIS 48:30–35
Open the fixed Hebrew Ezekiel file ↗translation and translator notes
NET Bible Notes: Ezekiel
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press, 2016; current official PDF
Supports: Verse-level controls for difficult Hebrew, syntax, older KJV language, dates, place names, textual issues, vision language, and material alternatives.
Exact location: Official NET Ezekiel PDF, exact translator, study, and textual notes attached to Ezekiel 48:30–35
Open the official NET Ezekiel PDF ↗modern scholarly book course
Ezekiel course: summary, outline, background, introductory issues, themes, and passage studies
Alan G. Padgett; revised by Tyler Mayfield
Enter the Bible, Luther Seminary, revised June 2023
Supports: Reader-oriented historical, literary, theological, and pastoral synthesis with visible alternatives and ancient-to-modern limits.
Exact location: Enter the Bible Ezekiel course, Outline and Theological Themes: temple, glory, worship, river, land, tribes, and city; applied to Ezekiel 48:30–35
Open the Enter the Bible Ezekiel course ↗open university study guide series
Jeremiah and Ezekiel: Ezekiel Parts 1-3 Study Guides
Joel S. Baden and Jacqueline Vayntrub
Yale Bible Study, 2024
Supports: Current university-level literary-historical synthesis and interpretive questions, including ethical attention to gendered rhetoric and the final vision.
Exact location: Yale Bible Study, Jeremiah and Ezekiel, Ezekiel Part 3 study guide: dry bones, Gog, land, and temple utopia; applied to Ezekiel 48:30–35
Open the Yale Jeremiah and Ezekiel course ↗peer reviewed spatial and social study
Gates and Entrances in Ezekiel 40-48
Julia Rhyder
Vetus Testamentum 73, 2023
Supports: Gates, access, hierarchy, protection, and social space in the final vision, without pretending the inspected sample is a complete commentary.
Exact location: Rhyder, 'Gates and Entrances in Ezekiel 40-48,' Vetus Testamentum 73 (2023), publication record, abstract, and author-hosted reading sample for pp. 752-765; applied to Ezekiel 48:30–35
Open the article record ↗peer reviewed open access literary and theological article
Hope in Exile: In Conversation with Ezekiel
Janina M. Hiebel
Religions 10.8, article 476, 2019
Supports: Displaced identity, false hope, durable collective hope, restoration, land, temple, transformed community, and their limits.
Exact location: Hiebel, 'Hope in Exile,' Religions 10.8 (2019), pp. 1-16, sections on Ezekiel 13, 20, 34-37, and 40-48; applied to Ezekiel 48:30–35
Open Hiebel on hope in Ezekiel ↗