# 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/translate/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. AT: "on the south side" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-explicit]]) # the house the temple