Ezekiel 8:16

between the porch and the altar. The place appointed for the priests.

five and twenty. The number of the heads of the twenty-four courses of the priests.

their backs toward the temple. Because their faces were toward the sun-rising.

worshipped the sun. This form of idolatry seen as early as Job 31:26; Job 31:27. and foreseen in Deuteronomy 4:19. adopted as early as Asa (2 Chronicles 14:5); abolished by Josiah (2 Kings 23:5; 2 Kings 23:11).