Verse 4
4. The glory of the Lord went up The cherubim remained, but Jehovah once more removed to the threshold (Ezekiel 9:3). Was this in order to view the execution of his commands in the burning of the city? This is wholly conjecture. Perhaps the idea is that otherwise the man could not have had the strength to fulfill his commission. Ezekiel (Ezekiel 1:28; Ezekiel 3:23) could not stand near God’s glory; how much less would he have been able to enter his chariot!
The house was filled with the cloud “God’s presence without a cloud is to man insupportable.” Even when God appeared to Moses “the glory of the Lord appeared in a cloud,” and of those on the mount of transfiguration it is said “a cloud overshadowed them.”
From the cherub Or, from the chariot. As in Hebrew the words cherub and chariot are nearly identical it would only require a very slight error to make this substitution. The connection shows that the entire chariot is meant. In the recently discovered Senschirli inscriptions, dating from about Ezekiel’s era, one man is named “Rekub-El,” chariot of God.
Court was full of the brightness of the Lord’s glory It is here for the first time made perfectly clear that the brightness which from the beginning had impressed the prophet was the shining of the divine One and not of the throne or the chariot.
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