Behold, in every corner of the court there was a court At every corner, where the side walls met in right angles, there was another little court. There were courts joined of forty cubits long, &c. These little courts were in the shape of an oblong square, joined with inner walls to the outside walls of the greater court. The marginal reading, made with chimneys, gives a sense which very well agrees with the uses for which the courts were designed. There was a row of buildings round about in them Namely, on the inside of these courts. Then said he, These are the places, &c. As there was a place in the inner court for boiling the trespass and sin-offering, Ezekiel 46:19-20; so these boiling-places might be appointed for boiling the peace-offerings, which were esteemed inferior in holiness to those above mentioned, and therefore, perhaps, were dressed by the Levites, or inferior ministers; whereas the former were boiled by the priests in the court properly belonging to them.
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Ezekiel 46:21-24
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 everya corner of the court there was a court.
22 In the four corners of the court there were courts joinedb of forty cubits long and thirty broad: these four corners were of one measure.
23 And there was a row of building round about in them, round about them four, and it was made with boiling places under the rows round about.
24 Then said he unto me, These are the places of them that boil, where the ministers of the house shall boil the sacrifice of the people.