Ezekiel 43:4-5 - Exposition

The prophet next narrates that he saw the glory of the Lord entering into and taking possession of the "house," as formerly it had entered into and taken possession of the tabernacle and the temple ( Exodus 40:34 , Exodus 40:35 ; 1 Kings 8:10 , 1 Kings 8:11 ), and that of this he was further assured by experiencing immediately thereafter—not a push from the wind, as Luther and Kliefoth translate, but an impulse from the Spirit (not "a spirit," Ewald, though the Hebrew word wants the article), which raised him from the ground upon which he had fallen ( Ezekiel 43:3 ), took him up (see on Ezekiel 2:2 ; Ezekiel 3:12 ), and brought him into the inner court, exactly in front of the "house," where, having looked into the interior, he saw that the glory of the Lord filled the house , the language being that used in connection with the tabernacle and the temple.