There were three guardrooms on each side of the gate toward the east; the three were the same size, and the side pillars on each side measured the same.

In the twenty-fifth year of our exile [in Babylon], in the beginning of the year, on the tenth [day] of the month, in the fourteenth year after the city [of Jerusalem] was taken, on that [very] same day the hand of the Lord was upon me and He brought me there.