# Connecting Statement:

Ezekiel interrupts his description of what was happening and describes what he saw.

# The cherubim stood ... inner courtyard

This is background information for the events that follow. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/writing-background]])

# cherubim

See how you translated this in [Ezekiel 9:3](../09/03.md).

# on the right side

As one faces east, "the right side" is toward the south. Alternate translation: "on the south side" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-explicit]])

# the house

the temple