Ezekiel 8:16
8:16 Then he brought me to the inner court of the Lord’s house. Right there at the entrance to the Lord’s temple, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men with their backs to the Lord’s temple, facing east – they were worshiping the sun toward the east!
Ezekiel 40:6
40:6 Then he went to the gate facing east. He climbed its steps and measured the threshold of the gate as 10½ feet deep.
Ezekiel 40:1
Vision of the New Temple
40:1 In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after the city was struck down, on this very day, the hand of the Lord was on me, and he brought me there.
Ezekiel 6:8
6:8 “‘But I will spare some of you. Some will escape the sword when you are scattered in foreign lands.
Nehemiah 9:4
9:4 Then the Levites – Jeshua, Binnui,
Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Kenani – stood on the steps and called out loudly
to the
LORD their God.