Ezekiel 44:1,2

Then he brought me back, &c. From the altar to the gate belonging to the court of the priests, and leading to the outward court of the temple. All the courts were reckoned holy ground, and called sometimes by the name of the temple. And it was shut After that the glory of the Lord had entered that way. Then saith the Lord, This gate shall be shut Shall be generally kept shut; no man shall enter in by it None of the common people: see chap. Ezekiel 46:1. Because the Lord hath entered in by it Namely, that glory which was the visible sign of God's presence. This order was given, both to perpetuate the remembrance of the solemn entrance of the glory of the Lord into the house, and also to possess the minds of the people with a deep reverence for the Divine Majesty, and with very awful thoughts of his transcendent glory; which was also designed in God's charge to Moses at the bush, Put off thy shoe from off thy foot.