Ezekiel 40:38-41
chamber <03957> [the chambers.]
washed <01740> [where.]
This place, where the legs and entrails of the sacrifices, especially of the burnt offerings, were washed, was just within the portico of the north entrance to the inner court, or court of the priests. An allusion to this is most probably made by the inspired apostle when writing his Epistle to the Hebrews, at the 10th chapter and 22nd verse. "Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water."
tables ........ slaughter <07979 07819> [tables on that.]
burnt offering <05930> [the burnt.]
sin offering <02403> [the sin.]
guilt offering <0817> [the trespass.]
outside ....................... side <03802> [at the side.]
Two tables were on each side, as you come into the porch of the gate; and two on each side of the inner part of the gate that looked towards the altar; in all eight tables, on which they slew and cut up the victims. It does not appear that any such tables were used either in the tabernacle or temple; and this seems to intimate the introduction of a new and more spiritual dispensation: See the referemces.
goes up <05927> [as one goeth up. or, at the step.]
