46 and that apartment facing the north is for the priests who have the charge of the altar, namely the sons of Sadduk, the only Levites who come near to the Lord to minister to him.
Ezekiel 40:46 Cross References - VIN
Leviticus 6:12-13
Leviticus 10:3
3 Therefore Moses said to Aaron, "This is what the LORD spoke, saying, 'Among those who are close to me I will show myself holy, and in the presence of all the people I will display my glory.'" So Aaron was silent.
Numbers 16:5
5 Then he said to Korah and all his followers: "In the morning the LORD will show who belongs to him, who is holy. He will have that person come near him. Only the person the LORD chooses will be allowed to come near him.
Numbers 16:40
40 He followed the LORD's command given through Moses. The copper-covered altar will remind Israel that no one but a descendant of Aaron may come near to burn incense to the LORD. Everyone else will die like Korah and his followers.
Numbers 18:5
5 You are to be responsible for the holy place and the altar, so that wrath may never again come on the children of Israel.
1 Kings 2:35
35 The king made Benaiah commander of the army in Joab's place and put Zadok the priest in Abiathar's place.
Ezekiel 42:13
13 Then he said to me, “The north rooms and the south rooms, which are before the separate place, are the holy rooms, where the priests who are near to the LORD shall eat the most holy things. There they shall lay the most holy things, with the meal offering, the sin offering, and the trespass offering; for the place is holy.
Ezekiel 43:19
19 And you shall give a young bull for a sin offering to the priests the Levites, who are of the seed of Zadok, who approach Me to minister to Me, says the Sovereign LORD.
Ezekiel 44:15
15 But the Levitical priests, the descendants of Zadok, who cared for the responsibility of my sanctuary when the Israelites went astray from me, they will approach me to serve me, and they will stand before me to offer to me fat and blood," declares the Sovereign LORD.
Ezekiel 45:4
4 It is a holy portion of the land; it shall be for the priests, the ministers of the sanctuary, who come near to minister to the LORD. It shall be a place for their houses and a holy place for the sanctuary.
Ezekiel 48:11
11 To the priests being consecrated: of the sons of Zadok, who watched my watches, who went not astray in the going astray of the sons of Israel, as the Levites went astray.
Ephesians 2:13
13 But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near through the blood of Christ.