So that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud: for the glory of the LORD had filled the house of the LORD.
Ver. 11. So that the priests could not stand,] sc., With the safeguard of their lives, their eyes at least. The holy angels clap their wings upon their faces, as it were a double scarf, - or as a man doth his hands before his eyes, when he beholdeth an exceeding great light, - before the brightness of God's presence, that would put out their eyes else. Isa 6:2-3 Pellican saith, by the priests being driven out by this cloud appearing, was showed that the time should come when this priesthood should minister no more by carnal rites in this place.