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Ezekiel 42 · Grade 5

The Wall of Holiness

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Ezekiel 42 completes the tour of the temple area. Ezekiel says the guide showed him two large three-story buildings of rooms, one on the north and one on the south, facing the temple. These priests' chambers were stepped back as they rose, with walkways in front of them.

The rooms had a sacred purpose. The priests who drew near to Yahweh would eat the most holy offerings there and store the grain, sin, and trespass offerings. Their serving garments were holy and had to remain in the chambers. They had to change before going to the people, so that holy things would not be treated as common.

The chapter closes with the measurement of the whole complex: five hundred units on each side, a perfect square. The wall had one purpose: to make a separation between that which was holy and that which was common. Ezekiel 22:26 had condemned priests who made no distinction between holy and common. In the New Testament, 1 Peter 1:15-16 calls believers to be holy in all their behavior, because God is holy.

Show What You Know

  1. Where were the priests' chambers?

  2. Why did the priests change garments?

  3. Which earlier chapter condemned priests for failing to distinguish holy and common?

  4. Which New Testament passage calls believers to be holy?

Crossword

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Across

  1. For they are ____
  2. Toward the ____ court before the rooms

Down

  1. The ____ rooms and the south rooms
  2. Then he brought me out into the outer ____
  3. Now the upper ____ were shorter

Think About It

  1. The temple wall reversed the failure of chapter 22. Why does God care that His people know the difference between holy and common?

  2. 1 Peter calls believers to be holy in all their behavior. What does that look like in everyday life?

Memory Verse

“He measured it on the four sides. It had a wall around it, the length five hundred cubits, and the width five hundred cubits, to make a separation between that which was holy and that which was common.”

Ezekiel 42:20 (WEB)

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Prayer

Dear God, thank You for making things holy. Help me . Amen.

Take It Home

For families: talk about these together.

  • How can you live a life set apart for God this week?
  • How does 1 Peter 1:15-16 connect to Ezekiel 42?
  • What is one way you could live out this chapter this week?

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