Ezekiel 10:17-22

17 1When they stood still, these stood still, and when they mounted up, these mounted up with them, for the spirit of the living creatures[a] was in them.
18 2Then 3the glory of the LORD went out from the threshold of the house, and stood over the cherubim.
19 4And the cherubim lifted up their wings and mounted up from the earth 5before my eyes as they went out, with the wheels beside them. And they stood at the entrance of the 6east gate of the house of the LORD, and 7the glory of the God of Israel was over them.
20 8These were the living creatures that I saw 9underneath the God of Israel by 10the Chebar canal; and I knew that they were cherubim.
21 11Each had four faces, and each four wings, and underneath their wings 12the likeness of human hands.
22 13And as for the likeness of their faces, they were the same faces whose appearance I had seen by the Chebar canal. 14Each one of them went straight forward.

Ezekiel 10:17-22 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO EZEKIEL 10

In this chapter is a vision, very much like that in the first chapter, with some difference, and with a different view, the design of it being to represent the wrath of God against Jerusalem, and his departure from the city and temple. A throne much like that in Eze 1:26 is described, Eze 10:1; orders are given from it to scatter coals over the city, Eze 10:2; the situation of the cherubim when these orders were given, Eze 10:3; the removal of the glory of the Lord from the cherub to the threshold of the house, and the consequences of it; the house filled with smoke; the court with the brightness of the Lord's glory; and the sound of the cherubim's wings heard to the outer court, as the voice of God, Eze 10:4,5; the orders of taking and scattering fire over the city executed, and the manner in which they were, Eze 10:6,7; a description of the cherubim and the wheels, much like that in the first chapter, Eze 10:8-17; the departure of the glory of God from the threshold to the east gate of the Lord's house, with the motion of the cherubim and wheels along with him, Eze 10:18,19; and the chapter is concluded with observing, that the cherubim are the same with the living creatures seen in the vision of the first chapter, and had the same form, likeness, and motion, Eze 10:20-22.

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