² And suddenly six men came from the direction of the upper gate, which faces north, each with his ^[a]battle-ax in his hand. ^(A)One man among them was clothed with linen and had a writer’s inkhorn ^[b]at his side. They went in and stood beside the bronze altar.

³ Now ^(A)the glory of the God of Israel had gone up from the cherub, where it had been, to the threshold of the ^[a]temple. And He called to the man clothed with linen, who had the writer’s inkhorn at his side;

⁵ I lifted my eyes and looked, and behold, a certain man clothed in ^(A)linen, whose waist was ^(B)girded with gold of Uphaz!