Ezekiel 10:3

3 Now the cherubim stood on the right side of the house when this man went in, and the cloud filled the inner court.

Ezekiel 10:3 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 10:3

Now the cherubim stood on the right side of the house
According to the Targum, it was the south side of the house; and so Jarchi interprets it opposite to the north, where the gross idolatries were committed, ( Ezekiel 8:3 Ezekiel 8:5 Ezekiel 8:14 ) ; standing at the greatest distance from them, and bearing their testimony against them: when the man went in;
they stood as it were in a levee, through which the man passed, waiting upon him; paying a respect to him; assenting to what he did; and approving of it: this circumstance is mentioned, because they were not always in this position, only at this time; nor did they continue so; we afterwards hear of their motion: and the cloud filled the inner court;
the court of the priests, not as a token of God's presence, as at the dedication of the temple; but rather of judicial blindness and darkness, which the people of the Jews were left unto.

Ezekiel 10:3 In-Context

1 Then I looked, and, behold, above the heaven that was above the head of the cherubim there appeared over them as it were a sapphire stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a throne.

2 And he spoke to the man clothed with linen and said, Go in between the wheels under the cherubim and fill thine hand with coals of fire from between the cherubim, and scatter them over the city. And he went in, in my sight.

3 Now the cherubim stood on the right side of the house when this man went in, and the cloud filled the inner court.

4 And the glory of the LORD had gone up from the cherubim to the threshold of the door, and the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was full of the brightness of the LORD’s glory.

5 And the thunder of the cherubim’s wings was heard even to the outer court as the voice of the Almighty God when he speaks.