two thousand cubits] In the precedent verse there is numbred but a thousand cubites, in this two thousand; which some take for the same measure, making the word Ammah in the fourth verse, to signifie a pace, and the same word in this verse a cubite (as the word Nahal in the same verse, viz. Deuteronomy 2:36. in the Hebrew is put for a brooke and for a valley) and allowing to every pace two cubites. The distinction of the word cubite taken for an ordinary cubite in this verse, and for a cubite of the Sanctuary (which is thought to be twice as much) in the precedent verse, is brought by some to cleare this seeming contradiction; others affirme they had from the walles of the Citie a thousand cubites allowed for pasture of cattell, and two thousand more for corne fields and vineyards; but the clearest way for avoydance of this seeming difference is this; they had a thousand cubites from the walles of the Citie out-right in length, and two thousand in compasse on each side, East, West, North, and South, which taken together made up the whole compasse eight thousand cubites, which may best be discerned by this Figure; In which it plainly appeareth, that the Lines stretched out foure severall waies from the Citie, are each of them a thousand cubits distant from the Citie, and each side of the square, East, West, North, and South, being twice so much in length as the line coming from the City outward (which is one thousand cubits, vers. 4.) must make up for each quarter two thousand cubits, according to the fifth verse: and if the forme of the Citie and Suburbs be circular, this proportion may be observed, with very little difference; for taking the semediameter, that is, the line halfe way from East to West, and from North to South, that is, from D to E, or from B to E, there is a thousand cubits, stretched out to a full diameter, that is, from D on the East side, to F on the West, and from B on the North side to H on the South, will make up two thousand cubits a piece; and if these be drawne about with a circular line, that circle will be about three times the length of the whole Diameter; and the Citie being in the midst of it, and the lines on each side drawne not from the Center of it, but from the wall or the outside, the circle or circumference will be so much the greater, that it will arise to eight thousand cubits; and so the whole quartered into foure parts, East, West, North, and South, each part will containe two thousand cubits, according to this verse, without any contradiction; yea with exact conformitie to the one thousand cubits in the fourth verse: and about this proportion in distance from the Citie wals, and in compasse or circuit about them, will the Levites portion of Suburbs be, whether the Citie be great or small, round or square, or of any other figure.