Ezekiel 10:4-5

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 10:4

The moving glory. It is difficult to follow the enraptured prophet through all the mystic mazes of his vision, and catch the meaning of the many gorgeous symbols that he discovers on every hand. But now and again certain points stand out with an individual significance even when their relation to the whole shifting panorama may strike us as somewhat obscure. Here we may take some hints from the moving of the Divine glory. This radiance moved from over the cherub, and stood over the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 10:4

The brightness of the Divine glory. The Shechinah-cloud in the holiest place was the visible representation and symbol of the presence of the Eternal in the place set apart for special communion between God and man. Appealing primarily to the sense of sight, it did in reality appeal to the intelligence and the conscience of the people. It was the same luminous cloud which Ezekiel beheld in his vision, and in which he recognized the manifestation of the Divine presence and interest. I. ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 10:4-19

; and Ezekiel 11:22 , Ezekiel 11:23 The withdrawal of the presence of God from a guilty people. "Then the glory of the Lord went up from the cherub, and stood over tile threshold of the house," etc. These verses, which are all essentially related to one subject, suggest the following observations. I. THAT GOD NEVER WITHDRAWS HIS GRACIOUS PRESENCE FROM A PERSON OR A NATION UNTIL THEY HAVE QUITE FORSAKEN HIM . The chosen people had despised his... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 10:5

The voice of the Almighty. The human voice deserves to be studied and admired as a most effective and delicate and exquisitely beautiful provision for the expression of thought and feeling. It is so ethereal, so semi-spiritual, that there seems scarcely any anthropomorphism in attributing it to the Creator himself. The sounds of nature may indeed be designated the voice of God. But the characteristics of the human utterance seem most justly attributable to him who comprehends in perfection... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 10:5-6

And the sound of the cherubim. The use of God Almighty ( El Shaddai; comp. Exodus 6:3 ), the name of God as ruling over nature, while Jehovah expressed his covenant relationship to Israel, is, it may be noted, characteristic of the early stage of the religion of Israel ( Genesis 17:1 ; Genesis 28:3 ; Genesis 43:14 ; Genesis 48:3 ). Shaddai alone appears eighty-one times in the Book of Job. Psalms 29:1-11 . explains the voice of El Shaddai (though there it is "the voice of... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Ezekiel 10:4

A repetition of Ezekiel 9:3. Now the glory of the Lord had gone up from the cherub to the threshold of the house. Ezekiel 10:4-6 describe what had occurred before the “man went in” Ezekiel 10:3. read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Ezekiel 10:5

The Almighty God - El Shaddai; compare the Genesis 17:1 note. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Ezekiel 10:4-7

Ezekiel 10:4-7. Then the glory of the Lord went up from the cherub In token of his departure from the temple. The words may be better rendered, For the glory of the Lord had gone up, &c. For the prophet repeats here what he had related before, Ezekiel 9:3. And the house was filled with the cloud The account here given must strike every reader as to its similarity with the description given of the Shechinah in the books of Moses and the first book of Kings. A bright cloud was the... 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 10:4

the glory , &c. See note on Ezekiel 1:28 . the LORD. Hebrew. Jehovah. App-4 . filled, he. As in 1 Kings 8:10 , read more

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