Reference: Line
Hastings
1. qaw, which is of most frequent occurrence, is properly a measuring line (e.g. Jer 31:39; Eze 47:3; Zec 1:16). Figuratively it denotes a rule of life (cf. 'precept upon precept, line upon line' of Isaiah's teaching, Isa 28:10). Ps 19:4 their line is gone out through all the earth' has been variously interpreted. The Septuagint, taking the line to be a resonant cord, rendered by phthonggos
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When we invade the land, tie this red rope in the window through which you let us down, and gather together in your house your father, mother, brothers, and all who live in your father's house.
She said, "I agree to these conditions." She sent them on their way and then tied the red rope in the window.
All of the entrances were rectangular in shape and they were arranged in sets of three.
He fashioned two bronze pillars; each pillar was 27 feet high and 18 feet in circumference.
It is as if I have been given fertile fields or received a beautiful tract of land.
Yet its voice echoes throughout the earth; its words carry to the distant horizon. In the sky he has pitched a tent for the sun.
He drove the nations out from before them; he assigned them their tribal allotments and allowed the tribes of Israel to settle down.
Indeed, they will hear meaningless gibberish, senseless babbling, a syllable here, a syllable there.
A carpenter takes measurements; he marks out an outline of its form; he scrapes it with chisels, and marks it with a compass. He patterns it after the human form, like a well-built human being, and puts it in a shrine.
The boundary line will extend beyond that, straight west from there to the Hill of Gareb and then turn southward to Goah.
When 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.
Then he went to the gate facing east. He climbed its steps and measured the threshold of the gate as 10? feet deep.
When 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.
"Therefore this is what the Lord says: 'Your wife will become a prostitute in the streets and your sons and daughters will die violently. Your land will be given to others and you will die in a foreign land. Israel will certainly be carried into exile away from its land.'"
"'Therefore,' says the Lord, 'I have become compassionate toward Jerusalem and will rebuild my temple in it,' says the Lord who rules over all. 'Once more a surveyor's measuring line will be stretched out over Jerusalem.'
But I ask, have they not heard? Yes, they have: Their voice has gone out to all the earth, and their words to the ends of the world.
For it is not the person who commends himself who is approved, but the person the Lord commends.