Chambers for the Priests
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On the outside of the inner gateway there were two b chambers in the c inner court, one at the side of the north gate facing south, the other at the side of the south gate facing north.
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And he said to me, This chamber that faces south is for the priests d who have charge of the temple,
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and the chamber that faces north is for the priests e who have charge of the altar. These are f the sons of Zadok, who alone among the sons of Levi may come g near to the Lord to minister to him.
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And he measured the court, h a hundred cubits long and h a hundred cubits broad, a square. And i the altar was in front of the temple.
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Cross References
Ezekiel 40:17
Then he brought me into the outer court. And behold, there were chambers and a pavement, all around the court. Thirty chambers faced the pavement.
Ezekiel 40:38
There was a chamber with its door in the vestibule of the gate, where the burnt offering was to be washed.
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Cross References
1 Chronicles 6:31 - 32
These are the men whom David put in charge of the service of song in the house of the Lord after the ark rested there.
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Cross References
1 Chronicles 9:23
So they and their sons were in charge of the ga...
Ezekiel 44:8
And you have not kept charge of my holy things,...
Ezekiel 44:14 - 15
Yet I will appoint them to keep charge of the t...
Ezekiel 44:16
They shall enter my sanctuary, and they shall a...
Ezekiel 48:11
This shall be for the consecrated priests, the ...
Leviticus 8:35
At the entrance of the tent of meeting you shal...
Numbers 1:53
But the Levites shall camp around the tabernacl...
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Cross References
Numbers 3:31
And their guard duty involved the ark, the table, the lampstand, the altars, the vessels of the sanctuary with which the priests minister, and the screen; all the service connected with these.
Numbers 18:5
And you shall keep guard over the sanctuary and over the altar, that there may never again be wrath on the people of Israel.
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Cross References
Ezekiel 43:19
You shall give to the Levitical priests of the family of Zadok, who draw near to me to minister to me, declares the Lord God, a bull from the herd for a sin offering.
Ezekiel 44:15
But the Levitical priests, the sons of Zadok, who kept the charge of my sanctuary when the people of Israel went astray from me, shall come near to me to minister to me. And they shall stand before me to offer me the fat and the blood, declares the Lord God.
1 Kings 2:35
The king put Benaiah the son of Jehoiada over the army in place of Joab, and the king put Zadok the priest in the place of Abiathar.
1 Chronicles 24:3
With the help of Zadok of the sons of Eleazar, and Ahimelech of the sons of Ithamar, David organized them according to the appointed duties in their service.
1 Chronicles 24:6
And the scribe Shemaiah, the son of Nethanel, a Levite, recorded them in the presence of the king and the princes and Zadok the priest and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar and the heads of the fathers' houses of the priests and of the Levites, one father's house being chosen for Eleazar and one chosen for Ithamar.
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Cross References
Ezekiel 42:13
Then he said to me, "The north chambers and the south chambers opposite the yard are the holy chambers, where the priests who approach the Lord shall eat the most holy offerings. There they shall put the most holy offerings - the grain offering, the sin offering, and the guilt offering - for the place is holy.
Ezekiel 45:4
It shall be the holy portion of the land. It shall be for the priests, who minister in the sanctuary and approach the Lord to minister to him, and it shall be a place for their houses and a holy place for the sanctuary.
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Cross References
Ezekiel 41:13 - 15
Then he measured the temple, a hundred cubits long; and the yard and the building with its walls, a hundred cubits long.
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Cross References
Ezekiel 41:13 - 15
Then he measured the temple, a hundred cubits long; and the yard and the building with its walls, a hundred cubits long.
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Cross References
Ezekiel 43:13
These are the measurements of the altar by cubits (the cubit being a cubit and a handbreadth): its base shall be one cubit high and one cubit broad, with a rim of one span around its edge. And this shall be the height of the altar:
Exodus 40:29
And he set the altar of burnt offering at the entrance of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting, and offered on it the burnt offering and the grain offering, as the Lord had commanded Moses.
Matthew 23:35
So that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of innocent Abel to the blood of Zechariah the son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar.
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