Ezekiel 10:20 - Exposition

Once more the prophet asserts, with fresh emphasis, the identity of the two visions which it had been given him to see. Now, as it were, he understands why the first vision was seen as coming from the north. He does not tell us whether the journey of which he saw the beginning was to end. For the present there was a halt, as we learn from Ezekiel 11:23 , "over the midst of the city." Even when the vision ended, it had not gone further than the Mount of Olives. We may conjecture, however, that he thought of its goal as that more sacred region of the heavens in which it had at first manifested itself (see note on Ezekiel 1:4 ). It was, at any rate, no longer in the temple. The banks of Chebar or any other place might become, as Bethel had been to Jacob ( Genesis 28:17 ), as "the house of God" and "the gate of heaven."