Ezekiel 9:3 - Exposition

Was gone up; better, went up. The prophet saw the process as well as the result. The "glory of the Lord" which he bad seen ( Ezekiel 8:4 ) by the northern gate rose from its cherub throne (we note the use of the singular to express the unity of the fourfold form), as if to direct the action of his ministers, to the threshold of the "house." This may be connected also with the thought that the normal abiding place of the presence of the Lord had been "between the cherubim" ( Psalms 80:1 ) of the mercy seat, but that thought seems in the present instance to be in the background, and I adopt the former interpretation as preferable.