Ezekiel 41:1,2

Ezekiel was in the *temple building. This building was the most *holy building in the entire *temple area. The building was not a place for *sacrifices. The priests killed the animals and burned them in the inner area, which was in front of this building. And this building was not for public use. Only priests could enter it. They could not enter whenever they chose. They entered on the special occasions when they had duties there.

The purpose of the *temple was for *worship. That is, the kind of *worship that is an expression of love. On behalf of the people, the priests showed their love for God when they carried out their duties in the *holy place. But God also showed his love for his people here. He showed his love because his *glory was present in the most *holy place.

Ezekiel entered the holiest room where a normal priest could *worship. Ezekiel describes the inside of this room in verses 15b to 26. (Verse 15b means the second part of verse 15.) It was not a very large room by modern standards. It was 35 feet (11 metres) wide and 70 feet (21 metres) long.

In this room, the priests would *worship God. The Bible describes its original furniture in Exodus 37:10-29.

The most *holy place – Ezekiel 41:3-4

v3 Then the man went inside and he measured the columns by the next door. Each column was two *cubits wide. The entrance was 6 *cubits wide and the walls at the side of the entrance were 7 *cubits wide. v4 Then he measured the room at the end of the *holy place. It was 20 *cubits long and 20 *cubits wide. The man said to me, ‘This is the most *holy place.’