Then the glory of the LORD went up from the cherub, [and stood] over the threshold of the house; and the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was full of the brightness of the LORD'S glory.
Ver. 4. Then the glory of the Lord went up from the cherub,] i.e., From the cherubims; so it had done once before, Eze 9:3 and returned again, to show that he was even driven out by the people's impenitence.
And stood over the threshold of the house.] As taking his last leave of it.
And the house was filled with a cloud.] Sublatenter abit a suo loco Dominus. a So Isaiah 6:4; "The house was filled with smoke." Josephus saith, that when God departed, a voice was heard out of the temple, saying, Let us leave these seats; like as, a little before the last desolation of it, there was heard Migremus hinc, Let us go hence. And a heathen writer saith, that a voice greater than man's was heard, that the gods were thence departing. b
a Oeoclamp.
b Audita maior humana vox, excedere deos. - Tacit.