Then the spirit took me up, and I heard behind me a voice of a great rushing, saying, Blessed be the glory of the LORD from his place.
The spirit took me up. So in Acts 8:39. Ezekiel's abode heretofore had not been the most suitable for his work. He therefore is guided by the spirit to Tel-abib, the chief town of the Jewish colony of captives; there he sat on the ground, "the throne of the miserable" (Ezra 9:3; Lamentations 1:1-3), seven days, the usual period for manifesting deep grief (Job 2:13), thus winning their confidence by sympathy in their sorrow (see Psalms 137:1).
I heard behind me the voice of a great rushing, saying ... He is accompanied by the cherubim (Eve. 3:13) which had been manifested at Chebar (Ezekiel 1:3-4), after their departure from Jerusalem. They now are heard moving with the "voice of a great rushing (the frequent accompaniment of the manifestation of God's presence, cf. Acts 2:2), saying, Blessed be the glory of the Lord from His place" - i:e, moving from the place in which it had been at Chebar, to accompany Ezekiel to his new destination (Ezekiel 9:3); or "from his place" may rather mean, in His place and manifested "from" it. Though God may seem to have forsaken His temple He is still in it, and will restore His people to it. His glory is "blessed," in opposition to those Jews who spoke evil of Him, as if He had been unjustly rigorous toward their nation (Calvin).