Ezekiel 10:5 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

There was a great and dreadful noise to awaken, or stop the mouths of sinners; whether this was an applause of Christ's righteous procedure, or any sound of alarm, or both, let your own judgment determine. See Ezekiel 1:24. Was heard; such as might well be heard; and as the vision represented such a great sound to the prophet, he reports it to the Jews; not that the elders now with Ezekiel did hear this, or that such an audible sound was heard in Jerusalem, but it is all represented to the prophet, and by him to them. The outer court; this was the court of the women. As the voice of the Almighty; as a mighty and terrible thunder, which is, Psalms 29:3-5, the voice of the Lord. When he speaketh; as when he spake on Mount Sinai, which made them all fear, and the sight so terrible, that Moses himself trembled, Heb 12.

Ezekiel 10:5

5 And the sound of the cherubims' wings was heard even to the outer court, as the voice of the Almighty God when he speaketh.