Ezekiel Chapter 46 Vs. 19-24

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Ezekiel 46:19-24


Ezekiel’s angelic guide led him to the kitchens in the temple complex. He first described the priests’ kitchens (Eze. 46:19-20), then the kitchens for the people’s sacrifices (Eze. 46:21-24).


The kitchens for the priests are to be at the west end of the priests’ chambers adjacent to the temple proper. There the priests will cook the guilt offering and the sin offering… to avoid bringing them into the outer court. The priests will be allowed to eat a portion of the sacrifices brought to the temple. “Chamber”: The priest’s kitchen chambers are convenient for managing their parts of the offering and cooking sacrificial means for worshipers, possibly close to the inner East gate. The “ministers of the temple”, v.24 are not the priests, but temple servants.


The kitchens for the sacrifices of the people will be in the four corners of the outer court. When the people offer fellowship offerings to the Lord, they will be allowed to eat part of the sacrifice in a fellowship meal (cf. Lev_7:15-18). Evidently at these four kitchens the priests will cook the people’s sacrifices. This magnificent temple will be a place of fellowship as well as worship.

It is not the duty of the people to prepare the food from the animals they bring for sacrifice. This states that is the duty of the priests. Some of them are baked, and some of them are boiled. Those sacrifices that had to do with meat were boiled, and the bread which was called the meat offering, was baked in the oven. This was to be kept away from the people.

The "utter" court is speaking of the outer court. These corner courts were in every corner of the outer court.


These courts in the corner were 60 feet by 45 feet. Each of the corners had an area of this very same size. This is as large as a modern home. It really was a giant kitchen.

This is saying that it was broken up into several rooms inside the outer measurements. It seemed as if the boiling went on in separate quarters. Perhaps, the animals being boiled were not to be in the same room.

Notice, the word ministers is plural. Each priest, probably, had his own area to boil in. You might say, each priest had his own kitchen. It appears, the sacrifices were individual, and should not be grouped together.