Ezekiel 46:21-24

Behold, in every corner of the court there was a court At every corner, where the side walls met in right angles, there was another little court. There were courts joined of forty cubits long, &c. These little courts were in the shape of an oblong square, joined with inner walls to the outside walls of the greater court. The marginal reading, made with chimneys, gives a sense which very well agrees with the uses for which the courts were designed. There was a row of buildings round about in them Namely, on the inside of these courts. Then said he, These are the places, &c. As there was a place in the inner court for boiling the trespass and sin-offering, Ezekiel 46:19; so these boiling-places might be appointed for boiling the peace-offerings, which were esteemed inferior in holiness to those above mentioned, and therefore, perhaps, were dressed by the Levites, or inferior ministers; whereas the former were boiled by the priests in the court properly belonging to them.