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The Sacrificial Kitchens
v. 16. Thus saith the Lord God, in making provisions for the future, lest conditions arise which would result in acts of violence on the part of the ruler, If the prince give a gift unto any of his sons, the inheritance thereof shall be his sons'; it shall be their possession by inheritance, to remain permanently under their dominion.
v. 17. But if he give a gift of his inheritance, of the special land set aside for his use and enjoyment, to one of his servants, as a reward of service or loyalty, then it shall be his to the year of liberty, the so-called year of the jubilee, Lev_25:10; after, it shall return to the prince, revert to him as his property; but his inheritance shall be his sons' for them, that is, only what the prince has presented to his Sons shall remain in their property at that time.
v. 18. Moreover, the prince shall not take of the people's inheritance by oppression, a feature against which these ordinances guarded, to thrust them out of their possession, as when Ahab took Naboth's vineyard; but he shall give his sons inheritance out of his own possession, Cf 1Sa_8:14; 1Sa_22:7, that My people be not scattered every man from his possession.
v. 19. After, that is, afterward, He brought me through the entry which was at the side of the gate, the entry mentioned Eze_42:9, into the holy chambers of the priests, those nearest to the inner north gate, which looked toward the north; and, behold, there was a place on the two sides westward, a section of the Temple area which had not yet been described.
v. 20. Then said He unto me, This is the place where the priests shall boil the trespass-offering and the sin-offering, where they shall bake the meat-offering, the food of the priests thus being prepared in immediate proximity to their chambers lest its sanctity be in any way polluted, that they bear them not out into the utter court to sanctify the people, to bring them into contact with this consecrated food and thus to defeat the object of the ordinance.
v. 21. Then He brought me forth into the utter court and caused me to pass by the four corners of the court; and, behold, in every corner of the court there was a court, a smaller tributary of the larger court.
v. 22. In the four corners of the court there were courts joined, closed, shut off from the rest of the court, of forty cubits long and thirty broad; these four corners were of one measure, of the same size.
v. 23. And there was a row of building round about in them, along their walls, round about them four, and it was made with boiling-places under the rows round about, roofed cooking apartments or kitchenettes, with a fireplace in each, next to the walls.
v. 24. Then said He unto me, These are the places of them that boil, where the ministers of the house, the ordinary Levites as servants of the Sanctuary, shall boil the sacrifice of the people, that part which belonged to the priests. By the sacrificial meals eaten by the people, then, was the communion and fellowship of all believers brought out symbolically.