¹⁸ Until then they had been gatekeepers for the camps of the children of Levi at the King’s Gate on the east.

¹⁶ So He brought me into the inner court of the Lord’s house; and there, at the door of the temple of the Lord, ^(A)between the porch and the altar, ^(B)were about twenty-five men ^(C)with their backs toward the temple of the Lord and their faces toward the east, and they were worshiping ^(D)the sun toward the east.

Outer Dimensions of the Temple

¹⁵ Now when he had finished measuring the inner ^[a]temple, he brought me out through the gateway that faces toward the ^(A)east, and measured it all around.