38 And the chambers and the entries thereof were by the posts of the gates, where they washed the burnt offering.
38 A room with a doorway was by the portico in each of the inner gateways, where the burnt offerings were washed.
38 There was a chamber with its door in the vestibule of the gate,
38 There was a room with a door at the vestibule of the gate complex where the burnt offerings were cleaned.
38 There was a chamber and its entrance by the gateposts of the gateway, where they washed the burnt offering.
38 A door led from the entry room of one of the inner gateways into a side room, where the meat for sacrifices was washed.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Ezekiel 40:38
Chapter Contents
The Vision of the Temple.
Here is a vision, beginning at ch. 40, and continued to the end of the book, ch. 48, which is justly looked upon to be one of the most difficult portions in all the book of God. When we despair to be satisfied as to any difficulty we meet with, let us bless God that our salvation does not depend upon it, but that things necessary are plain enough; and let us wait till God shall reveal even this unto us. This chapter describes two outward courts of the temple. Whether the personage here mentioned was the Son of God, or a created angel, is not clear. But Christ is both our Altar and our Sacrifice, to whom we must look with faith in all approaches to God; and he is Salvation in the midst of the earth, Psalm 74:12, to be looked unto from all quarters.