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Ezekiel 10:3

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Now when the man went in, the cherubim were standing on the south side of the temple, and a cloud filled the inner court.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

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

KJV

Now the cherubims stood on the right side of the house, when the man went in; and the cloud filled the inner court.

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This verse in Ezekiel 10

Commentary

4 notes on this verse
On the right side - On the south Eze 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.

This site's exposition

right side of the house

on Ezekiel 10:3-5

The cherubim stand on the right side of the house while the same cloud that filled Solomon's temple at its dedication fills the inner court. Then the glory of the Lord rises from the cherub and stands over the threshold, the first step of a departure the book will not finish until verse twenty three, and the house fills with brightness. The sound of the cherubim's wings reaches the outer court like the voice of God Almighty, the very comparison chapter one already used for the throne's approach. Fairbairn marks this rising from the cherub to the threshold as the hinge of the whole book, the glory that filled the house at its founding now measuring its way toward the door.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

The right side - The north-side, the side towards Babylon, from whence the fire came which consumed the city. The man - Christ, the Lord of angels, who now attend his coming and commands.

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

(2.) That the fire of divine wrath, which kindles judgement upon a people, is just and holy, for it is fire fetched from between the cherubim. The fire on God's altar, where atonement was made, had been slighted, to avenge which fire is here fetched from heaven, like that by which Nadab and Abihu were killed for offering strange fire.

The words behind it

11 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וְהַכְּרֻבִ֗יםand the cherubim

    vehakeruvimH3742 →91 times

  • עֹֽמְדִ֛ים[were] standing

    ʾomedimH5975 →521 times

  • מִימִ֥יןfrom [the] south

    miminH3225 →140 times

  • לַבַּ֖יִתof the house

    labayitH1004 →2046 times

  • בְּבֹא֣וֹwhen went he

    bevooH935 →2568 times

  • הָאִ֑ישׁthe man

    haishH376 →1663 times

  • וְהֶעָנָ֣ןand the cloud

    veheananH6051 →87 times

  • מָלֵ֔אit filled

    male'H4390 →249 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • הֶחָצֵ֖רthe court

    hechatzerH2691 →191 times

  • הַפְּנִימִֽית׃<the> inner

    hapenimitH6442 →32 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

3 in all, six open

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Ezekiel 8:16

    So He brought me to the inner court of the house of the LORD, and there at the entrance to the temple of the LORD, between the portico and the altar, were about twenty-five…

    it leads to

    • Deuteronomy 4:19

      When you look to the heavens and see the sun and moon and stars—all the host of heaven—do not be enticed to bow down and worship what the LORD your God has apportioned to…

    • Deuteronomy 17:3

      and going to worship other gods, bowing down to them or to the sun or moon or any of the host of heaven—which I have forbidden—

    • Jeremiah 32:33

      They have turned their backs to Me and not their faces. Though I taught them again and again, they would not listen or respond to discipline.

    • Jeremiah 2:27

      say to a tree, ‘You are my father,’ and to a stone, ‘You gave me birth.’ For they have turned their backs to Me and not their faces, yet in the time of trouble…

    • Ezekiel 11:1

      Then the Spirit lifted me up and brought me to the gate of the house of the LORD that faces east. And there at the entrance of the gate were twenty-five men. Among them…

  • Through

    Ezekiel 9:3

    Then the glory of the God of Israel rose from above the cherubim, where it had been, and moved to the threshold of the temple. And He called to the man clothed in linen…

    it leads to

    • Ezekiel 10:4

      Then the glory of the LORD rose from above the cherubim and stood over the threshold of the temple. The temple was filled with the cloud, and the court was filled with the brightness…

  • Through

    Ezekiel 43:4

    and the glory of the LORD entered the temple through the gate facing east.

    it leads to

    • Ezekiel 44:2

      And the LORD said to me, “This gate is to remain shut. It shall not be opened, and no man shall enter through it, because the LORD, the God of Israel, has entered through…

    • Ezekiel 10:18–19

      Then the glory of the LORD moved away from the threshold of the temple and stood above the cherubim.

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About Ezekiel

The Prophet Ezekiel — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
The Prophet Ezekiel — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament; Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and Patrick Fairbairn, An Exposition of Ezekiel.

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