Ezekiel 42:1-14

We, as believers in Jesus Christ, are priests and no longer slaves to sin. We have the right to call upon God in the name of Jesus to overcome sin and the destruction that comes with it. Narrow is the way that leads to salvation. We are a special people set aside for the good works of the Godhead. We must always keep in our hearts that He wants no one to die without knowing Him. Trust God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, to accomplish God’s will in your life. 

We share the gifts of Holy Spirit with those that He places in our life.

To the north and south of the courtyard separating the temple and the western building is a building for the priests 175 feet long and 87.5 feet wide, with three stories and a door along the length facing the outer courtyard. The entrance has a walk 17.5 by 1.75 feet. Mainly the northern building is described, but apparently the southern building is the same or very similar. Parallel to the eastern wall (the width) and its door is a wall 87.5 feet long. These are places for certain priests to eat and change clothes, indicating that the rooms also provide storage facilities for the holy food offerings and priestly garments. NKJ Bible.

The purpose of the chambers is made clear in Ezekiel 42:13–14. They functioned as vestries or sacristies where the priests could change from their inner-court garments into their outer-court garments. The angelic guide explains that the rooms Ezekiel has seen are holy chambers for the priests’ use. The sacrifices and the holy garments must remain in these chambers and not be taken into the outer court. Faithlife Bible.

Ezekiel 42:1-14

42 Then he brought me out into the outer court, by the way toward the north; and he brought me into the chamber which was opposite the separating courtyard, and which was opposite the building toward the north. 2 Facing the length, which was one hundred cubits (the width was fifty cubits), was the north door. 3 Opposite the inner court of twenty cubits, and opposite the pavement of the outer court, was gallery against gallery in three stories. 4 In front of the chambers, toward the inside, was a walk ten cubits wide, at a distance of one cubit; and their doors faced north. 5 Now the upper chambers were shorter, because the galleries took away space from them more than from the lower and middle stories of the building. 6 For they were in three stories and did not have pillars like the pillars of the courts; therefore the upper level was shortened more than the lower and middle levels from the ground up. 7 And a wall which was outside ran parallel to the chambers, at the front of the chambers, toward the outer court; its length was fifty cubits. 8 The length of the chambers toward the outer court was fifty cubits, whereas that facing the temple was one hundred cubits. 9 At the lower chambers was the entrance on the east side, as one goes into them from the outer court.

10 Also there were chambers in the thickness of the wall of the court toward the east, opposite the separating courtyard and opposite the building. 11 There was a walk in front of them also, and their appearance was like the chambers which were toward the north; they were as long and as wide as the others, and all their exits and entrances were according to plan. 12 And corresponding to the doors of the chambers that were facing south, as one enters them, there was a door in front of the walk, the way directly in front of the wall toward the east.

13 Then he said to me, “The north chambers and the south chambers, which are opposite the separating courtyard, are the holy chambers where the priests who approach the Lord shall eat the most holy offerings. There they shall lay the most holy offerings—the grain offering, the sin offering, and the trespass offering—for the place is holy. 14 When the priests enter them, they shall not go out of the holy chamber into the outer court; but there they shall leave their garments in which they minister, for they are holy. They shall put on other garments; then they may approach that which is for the people.”

Leviticus 2:10 | And what is left of the grain offering shall be Aaron’s and his sons’. It is most holy of the offerings to the LORD made by fire.

Leviticus 6:14 | ‘This is the law of the grain offering: The sons of Aaron shall offer it on the altar before the LORD.

Leviticus 6:16 | And the remainder of it Aaron and his sons shall eat; with unleavened bread it shall be eaten in a holy place; in the court of the tabernacle of meeting they shall eat it.

Numbers 18:9 | This shall be yours of the most holy things reserved from the fire: every offering of theirs, every grain offering and every sin offering and every trespass offering which they render to Me, shall be most holy for you and your sons.