EZEKIEL CHAPTER 44 The east gate assigned only to the prince, Ezekiel 44:1-3. The people reproved for steering strangers to pollute the sanctuary, Ezekiel 44:4-8. Idolaters declared incapable of the priest's office, Ezekiel 44:9-14. The sons of Zadok are accepted thereto, Ezekiel 44:15,16. Ordinances for the priests, Ezekiel 44:17-31. Then; when the altar was measured, and directions given for consecrating it at first, and for the perpetual use of it for future. Back; from the inner court, where be had been viewing the altar, to the outer part of the same court, and to the east gate thereof: others say it was to the templegate eastward and that the temple is called outward sanctuary, in respect of the holy of holies. It was shut; when, or by whom, the prophet says not, but he found it shut.
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Ezekiel 44:1
1 Then he brought me back the way of the gate of the outward sanctuary which looketh toward the east; and it was shut.