Albert Barnes Commentary Ezekiel 48:35

"It shall be eighteen thousand [reeds] round about: and the name of the city from that day shall be, Jehovah is there." — Ezekiel 48:35 (ASV)

The circuit of the city walls, a square of 4500 reeds, was 18,000 reeds, not quite 37 English miles. The circuit of Jerusalem in the time of Josephus was reckoned by him to be about four miles.

The name ... - The manner of expressing a spiritual meaning by giving a name to a city, a people, or the like, is familiar to the prophets (see Ezekiel 43:15 note). Jerome explains it: “The name of the city shall be no longer Jerusalem (“the vision of peace”), but Adonai-shama (“the Lord is there”) (rather, Jehovah-shammah, “Jehovah is there”), because Yahweh will never again withdraw from it, as He once withdrew, but will hold it as His everlasting possession.”

The visible presence of God’s glory, once represented in the tabernacle and in the temple, had departed, and should not return in the same form.

Yet Ezekiel in “visions of God” sees a temple reconstructed to receive the glory of the divine presence, a prophetic vision fulfilled in Emmanuel (“God with us”), who tabernacled among men (John 1:14). Compare (Romans 9:25); (Revelation 21:2–3).