This is the living creature that I saw under the God of Israel by the river of Chebar; and I knew that they were the cherubims.
I knew that they were the cherubim. By this second sight of the cherubim he learnt to identify them with the angelic forms situated above the ark of the covenant in the temple, which, as a priest, he "knew" about from the high priest.
Verse Ezekiel 10:20. _AND I KNEW THAT THEY_ WERE _THE CHERUBIMS._] This formation of the plural is quite improper. In general, Hebrew nouns of the masculine gender end in ים _im_, in the plural; the _...
In this departure of the glory of the Lord from the temple, the seer recognizes for the first time the full meaning of the vision which he had seen on the banks of Chebar Ezekiel 1. What he had seen t...
Ezekiel 10:1. Once more the glory vision appears. The linen clothed man who had done the marking in the previous chapter is now executing judgment. Who is He? Evidently more than an angel. That he is...
This splendid passage is followed by a description of the Divine chariot (Ezekiel 10:9) which does little more than duplicate the description in Ezekiel 1:15, and which, to a modern taste, seems of th...
THE CHERUBIMS: i.e. which he had seen in Ezekiel 1....
were the _cherubims_ WERE CHERUBIM. The remark that he knew that the living creatures were cherubim is of very great difficulty. It would scarcely be in the sense of the prophet to suppose that he lea...
D. The Departure of the Divine Presence 10:18-22 TRANSLATION (18) And the glory of the LORD went out from over the threshold of the house and stood over the cherubim. (19) And the cherubim lifted the...
§ 3. A VISION OF JERUSALEM'S SIN AND DOOM (EZEKIEL 8-11) Date, August-September, 591 b.c. A year and two months after his call to be a prophet, Ezekiel was visited in his house by the elders of the J...
I KNEW THAT THEY _were_ the cherubims] RV 'I knew that they were cherubim.' Ezekiel now recognised for the first time that the 'living creatures'were identical with the 'cherubim' of Hebrew poetry and...
EZEKIEL: ‘THEY SHALL KNOW THAT I AM GOD’ THE *SIN OF JUDAH AND THE JUDGEMENT OF GOD EZEKIEL CHAPTER S 1 TO 24 _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 10 COALS OF FIRE OVER THE CITY – EZEKIEL 10:1-8 V1 I
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YOUR HOUSE IS LEFT UNTO YOU DESOLATE Ezekiel 8:1; Ezekiel 9:1; Ezekiel 10:1; Ezekiel 11:1 ONE of the most instructive phases of reli
The prophet next described the process of judgment. First, a preliminary vision was granted to him. The man with the inkhorn who had passed through the midst of the city, setting his mark on the sighi...
This [is] the (i) living being that I saw under the God of Israel by the river of Chebar; and I knew that they [were] the cherubim. (i) That is, the whole body of the four beasts or cherubims....
_Creature. The cherubim and all the throne seemed alive. (Haydock)_...
The glory of the Lord going up, and departing, which is twice spoken of in this short chapter, evidently testifies the importance of the thing. But, except we interpret it with an eye to the withdrawi...
He repeats what we have seen before, namely, that one vision was offered twice, because God wished to mark distinctly what otherwise had been doubtful. The Prophet indeed was sufficiently persuaded th...
In chapter 10 the whole city is given up to be consumed. The glory of Jehovah presides over the judgment and commands it. He stands upon the threshold of His house which He fills with His glory in jud...
THIS [IS] THE LIVING CREATURE THAT I SAW UNDER THE GOD OF ISRAEL, BY THE RIVER OF CHEBAR,.... This is repeated from Ezekiel 10:15; not only for the confirmation of it; but with an addition, to show t...
This [is] the living creature that I saw under the God of Israel by the river of Chebar; and I knew that they [were] the cherubims. Ver. 20. _And I knew that they were the cherubims._] Now at last I...
_This is the living creature_, &c. See Ezekiel 1:22. _And I knew that they were the cherubims_ Either by special assurance as a prophet, or from reading and hearing about those that were represented i...
This is the living creature that I saw under the God of Israel by the river of Chebar; and I knew that they were the cherubim, and their leaving completed the abandonment of tile Temple as a whole....
THE REMOVAL OF JEHOVAH FROM HIS TEMPLE...
8-22 Ezekiel sees the working of Divine providence in the government of the lower world, and the affairs of it. When God is leaving a people in displeasure, angels above, and all events below, furthe...
THE LIVING CREATURE; though four in number, but one in form, mind, and work. THE GOD OF ISRAEL; appearing as he did, EZEKIEL 1:26, in form of a man, it leads us to conclude it meant of Christ. I KNEW;...
Ezekiel 10:20 creature H2416 saw H7200 (H8804) God H430 Israel H3478 River H5104 Chebar H3529 knew H3045 ...
‘This is the living creature that I saw under the God of Israel by the River Chebar, and I knew that they were cherubim. Every one had four faces apiece, and every one four wings. And the likeness of...
CONTENTS: Visions of the altar fire scattered over Jerusalem. Description of the cherubim. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Ezekiel. CONCLUSION: God's glory and government infinitely transcend all the brigh...
Ezekiel 10:1. _Behold, in the firmament there appeared as it were a sapphire stone, as the appearance of a throne._ This is the vision that was seen by the river Chebar, but now the vision opens in th...
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 10:1 Two actions are interwoven here: the second (visionary) phase of city destruction (vv. Ezekiel 10:1), and the further withdrawal of the glory of God from the temple (vv....
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 10:9 While this section is mostly description, the action in vv. Ezekiel 10:18 is crucial. At the THRESHOLD (v....
EXEGETICAL NOTES.— Ezekiel 10:9. The description of the cherubim and of their movements is similar to, but independent of, that given in chap. 1. Ezekiel is not prostrated as at first, and seems to se...
EXPOSITION EZEKIEL 10:1, EZEKIEL 10:2 THEN I LOOKED, etc. There follows on the work of judgment another theophany, like that of Ezekiel 1:15.
CHAPTER 10. THE VISION OF THE COALS OF FIRE. As soon as the prophet's attention was withdrawn from what had for the time completely absorbed it, the proceedings connected with the preservation of the...
And then I looked, and, behold, in the firmament [the heaven] that was above the head of the cherubims there appeared over them as it were a sapphire stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a thro...
1 Kings 6:29; 1 Kings 7:36; Ezekiel 1:1; Ezekiel 1:22; Ezekiel 10:15
I knew — Either by special assurance as a prophet, or by comparing them with those which he had often seen in the temple....