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Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Ezekiel 10:16-17

are a repetition of the general description of the nature and connection of the various parts of the vision, and this is the more appropriate as showing why they were regarded as “one living creature” Ezekiel 10:15. The attributes here assigned to them show that they were pervaded by one will - “the spirit of the living creature” (others, as in the margin, “the spirit of life”) “was in them.” read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Ezekiel 10:15-17

Ezekiel 10:15-17. And the cherubims were lifted up To attend upon the divine glory wherever it went, and particularly at its removal from the temple. This is the living creature, &c. Here it is spoken of as only one living creature, though before it is called the living creatures; because it was, as it were, but one creature, of the likeness of four different animals. For the spirit of the living creature was in them There is a perfect harmony between second causes in their... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 10:1-22

God’s glory departs from the temple (10:1-22)In the present series of visions the fiery chariot-throne of God was in the court of the temple (see 8:3-4). The glory of God (that is, the symbolic form of God over the throne) had risen from the throne and come to rest on the threshold of the temple. From there God had directed his agents in the execution of the citizens of Jerusalem (see 9:3). From this same position on the temple threshold, God now gave further commands to the man who had... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Ezekiel 10:15

cherubims, Hebrew. shervbim, plural; Eng. plural = cherubs. lifted up. To bear away the symbol of the Divine presence. living creature, Singular. read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Ezekiel 10:15

"And the cherubim mounted up: this is the living creature that I saw by the river Chebar. And when the cherubim went, the wheels went beside them; and when the cherubim lifted up their wings to mount up from the earth, the wheels also turned not from beside them. When they stood, these stood, and when they mounted up, these mounted up with them: for the spirit of the living creature was in them. And the glory of Jehovah went forth from over the threshold of the house, and stood over the... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Ezekiel 10:15

15. The repeated declaration of the identity of the vision with that at the Chebar is to arouse attention to it (Ezekiel 10:22; Ezekiel 3:23). the living creature—used collectively, as in Ezekiel 10:17; Ezekiel 10:20; Ezekiel 1:20. read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Ezekiel 10:16

16. (See on :-; Ezekiel 1:19). lifted up . . . wings—to depart, following "the glory of the Lord" which was on the point of departing (Ezekiel 10:18). read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Ezekiel 10:17

17. (Ezekiel 1:12; Ezekiel 1:20; Ezekiel 1:21). stood—God never stands still (John 5:17), therefore neither do the angels; but to human perceptions He seems to do so. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Ezekiel 10:9-22

God’s preparations to depart from the temple 10:9-22"God would not share His dwelling place with other ’gods,’ and the sanctuary had been polluted with idolatry. God’s worship center at Shiloh was removed shortly after His glory had departed from it (1 Samuel 4:1-4; 1 Samuel 4:10-11; 1 Samuel 4:19-22; Jeremiah 7:12-14); and the same fate awaited the Jerusalem temple." [Note: Dyer, "Ezekiel," p. 1246.] "Ezekiel 10:9-22 provides one of the most obvious illustrations of echo literary strategy in... read more

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