Ezekiel 46:24 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

Them that boil; appointed to do the cook's work. The ministers; either Levites, or else degraded priests, of which see Ezekiel 44:9-14. The house; the temple of God. Shall boil the sacrifices which they bring, particularly their peace-offerings, of which the people were to have a portion, and to eat it before the Lord, which is the reason some think these courts and kitchens were in the corners of the courts of the people. But I think, as the people bringing a sacrifice were admitted into the court that was the court of the priests, and to the very gates of the court of the temple, where they gave the sacrifice to the priest, and saw him prepare and offer it for them, so they might be admitted to feast on so solemn occasion in the courts or chambers, whither ordinarily they might not come; I cannot therefore determine these kitchen courts to have been in the court of the people, it is more likely they were in the priests courts.

Ezekiel 46:24

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.