Yehezkiel 8:16
Konteks8:16 Then he brought me to the inner court of the Lord’s house. Right there 1 at the entrance to the Lord’s temple, between the porch and the altar, 2 were about twenty-five 3 men with their backs to the Lord’s temple, 4 facing east – they were worshiping the sun 5 toward the east!
Yehezkiel 48:15
Konteks48:15 “The remainder, one and two-thirds miles 6 in width and eight and a quarter miles 7 in length, will be for common use by the city, for houses and for open space. The city will be in the middle of it;
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[8:16] 1 tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) indicates becoming aware of something.
[8:16] 2 sn The priests prayed to God between the porch and the altar on fast days (Joel 2:17). This is the location where Zechariah was murdered (Matt 23:35).
[8:16] 3 tc The LXX reads “twenty” instead of twenty-five, perhaps because of the association of the number twenty with the Mesopotamian sun god Shamash.
[8:16] tn Or “exactly twenty-five.”
[8:16] 4 sn The temple faced east.
[8:16] sn The worship of astral entities may have begun during the reign of Manasseh (2 Kgs 21:5).
[48:15] 6 tn Heb “five thousand cubits” (i.e., 2.625 kilometers).
[48:15] 7 tn Heb “twenty-five thousand cubits” (i.e., 13.125 kilometers).