Ezekiel 10:20 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Bible Comments

In this departure of the glory of the Lord from the temple, the seer recognizes for the first time the full meaning of the vision which he had seen on the banks of Chebar Ezekiel 1. What he had seen there (did indeed imply that Yahweh had forsaken His house; but now this is made clear. The Glory has left the holy of holies, has appeared in the court, has been enthroned on the Living Four, and with them has departed from the temple. It is now clear that these Four (in form similar to, yet differing from, the cherubim of the temple) are indeed the cherubim, in the midst of whom the Lord dwelleth.

Ezekiel 10:20

20 This is the living creature that I saw under the God of Israel by the river of Chebar; and I knew that they were the cherubims.