And the glory of the God of Israel was gone up from the cherub, whereupon he was, to the threshold of the house. And he called to the man clothed with linen, which had the writer's inkhorn by his side;
The glory of the God of Israel was gone up from the cherub, whereupon he was, to the threshold of the house - the manifestation of God's glory, which had heretofore, as a bright cloud, rested on the mercy-seat between the cherubim in the holy of holies (2 Samuel 6:2; Psalms 80:1, "Thou that dwellest between the cherubim") now departed. Its departure was the presage of the temple being given up to ruin; its going from the inner sanctuary "to the threshold" without, toward the officers standing at the altar outside, was in order to give them the commission of vengeance. The cherub here is that over the mercy-seat in the temple, and is not to be confounded with the cherubim which Ezekiel saw by the the Chebar.