Psalms 18:10

As the Shechinah, or mystic Presence of Jehovah in the cloud of glory, rested over the cherubim which were upon the "Mercy-seat" or covering of the ark (2 Samuel 6:2; Psalms 80:1; Hebrews 9:5), so here Jehovah is represented "riding upon a cherub," as the living throne on which He traverses space.

The Cherubim appear in Scripture (a) as the guardians of Paradise (Genesis 3:24): (b) as sculptured or wrought figures in the Tabernacle and Temple (Exodus 25:17-22; Exodus 26:1; 1Ki 6:23 ff; 1 Kings 7:29; 1 Kings 7:36): (c) in prophetic visions as the attendants of God (Ezekiel 10:1 ff.; cp. Ezekiel 1; Isaiah 6; Revelation 4). The Cherubim of the Tabernacle and Temple seem to have been winged human figures, representing the angelic attendants who minister in God's Presence: those of Ezekiel's vision appear as composite figures (Ezekiel 10:20-21), symbolical perhaps of all the powers of nature, which wait upon God and fulfil His Will.

yea, he did fly R.V. yea, he flew swiftly. The Heb. word is a peculiar one, used of the swoopingof birds of prey (Deuteronomy 28:49; Jeremiah 48:40; Jeremiah 49:22). The reading "yea, he was seen" in 2 Sam. is an obvious corruption. The consonants of the two words are so nearly alike (וירא וידא), that the rarer word would easily be altered into the more common one. For "the wings of the wind" cp. Psalms 104:3.