Ezekiel 10:20-22

Ezekiel explained that the cherubim were the same creatures that he had formerly called living beings in his description of his earlier vision (Ezekiel 1:5). Why did Ezekiel not call them cherubim in chapter 1? Perhaps this vision of Solomon’s temple, which contained representations of cherubim (Exodus 25:18-20; 1 Kings 6:29; 1 Kings 6:35; 1 Kings 7:29; 1 Kings 7:36), helped Ezekiel identify the living creatures that he had seen before. Each one had four faces, four wings, and human-like hands under their wings (Ezekiel 1:6; Ezekiel 1:8). The faces of the cherubim were the same as the faces of the living creatures in the previous vision. Each cherub moved straight forward, in the direction of the front of its body (Ezekiel 1:9; Ezekiel 1:12). This description may stress the purposefulness with which the cherubim moved to carry out God’s will.

"Once God passed from the gate, the name Ichabod ("the glory has departed") could have been applied to Jerusalem just as it had been applied earlier to Shiloh (1 Samuel 4:21-22)." [Note: Dyer, in The Old . . ., p. 667.]

". . . the departure of the glory signals the end of a relationship that had existed for almost four centuries. The divine king has abandoned his residence." [Note: Block, The Book . . ., pp. 326-27.]