¹⁶ Then He brought me into the inner courtyard of the Lord’s house. And behold, at the entrance to the temple of the Lord, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men with their ^(A)backs to the temple of the Lord while their faces were toward the east; and ^(B)they were ^[a]prostrating themselves eastward toward the sun.

³ Now the cherubim were standing on the right side of the ^[a]temple when the man entered, and the cloud filled the ^(A)inner courtyard.