Ezekiel 10:1
As in Ezekiel 1, the vision of the glory of the Lord, the particulars given identifying the two visions.... [ Continue Reading ]
As in Ezekiel 1, the vision of the glory of the Lord, the particulars given identifying the two visions.... [ Continue Reading ]
HE SPAKE - The person enthroned. THE CHERUB - The particular cherub who was to hand the coals to destroy Psalms 120:4; Isaiah 10:16; Revelation 15:8.... [ Continue Reading ]
ON THE RIGHT SIDE - On the south Ezekiel 47:2. The idolatries had been seen on the north side. On the south stood the “cherubim” ready to receive and bear away the glory of the Lord.... [ Continue Reading ]
A repetition of Ezekiel 9:3. Now the glory of the Lord had gone up from the cherub to the threshold of the house. Ezekiel 10:4 describe what had occurred before the “man went in” Ezekiel 10:3.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE ALMIGHTY GOD - El Shaddai; compare the Genesis 17:1 note.... [ Continue Reading ]
ONE CHERUB - The “cherub” who stood next the wheel by the side of which the man stood. The representative of the priestly office now gives up his post of reconciliation, and becomes simply a minister of wrath; another sign that God will turn from Jerusalem.... [ Continue Reading ]
An explanation following upon the mention of the “hand.” It is characteristic of this chapter that the narrative is interrupted by explanatory comments. The “narrative” is contained in Ezekiel 10:1, Ezekiel 10:6, Ezekiel 10:13, Ezekiel 10:15 (first clause), 18, 19; the other verses contain the “inte... [ Continue Reading ]
THE HEAD - Either “the leading wheel which the others followed,” or more probably, the head of a cherub (one for all), the description passing from the wheels to the cherubim Ezekiel 10:12.... [ Continue Reading ]
According to the marginal rendering the present verse refers back to Ezekiel 10:2, Ezekiel 10:6, and tells us that the name “galgal, a rolling thing” (compare Isaiah 17:13), was given to the wheels in the seer’s hearing. But taking Ezekiel 10:14 as a description, and reading Ezekiel 10:15 immediatel... [ Continue Reading ]
THE FIRST FACE ... - The face of the first was the face of the cherub, and the face of the second was the face of a man, and the third the face of a lion and the fourth the face of an eagle. Of the four faces of each cherub, the seer names only one - the face looking in the direction in which that c... [ Continue Reading ]
are a repetition of the general description of the nature and connection of the various parts of the vision, and this is the more appropriate as showing why they were regarded as “one living creature” Ezekiel 10:15. The attributes here assigned to them show that they were pervaded by one will - “the... [ Continue Reading ]
The cherubim (or chariot) had stood first on the threshold of the temple-door, and there received the glory of the Lord. They then lifted their wings, rose, and left the temple by “the east gate” of the outer court at “the entrance” of which they now for a time stood. It was by the east gate of the... [ Continue Reading ]
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 there (did indeed imply that Yahweh had forsaken His house; but now this is made clear. The Glory has... [ Continue Reading ]