Ezekiel 10:9-22

This splendid passage is followed by a description of the Divine chariot (Ezekiel 10:9) which does little more than duplicate the description in Ezekiel 1:15, and which, to a modern taste, seems of the nature of an irrelevance and anticlimax. The point of the repetition, however, is suggested by Ezekiel 10:20; Ezekiel 10:22, which identify the chariot seen at Jerusalem with that seen in the former vision by the Chebar. It is as if Ezekiel said that the glorious God of Israel, whose glory had been trailed in the dust by His worshippers (Ezekiel 10:8), had not only annihilated Jerusalem, her Temple and her people, but had definitely abandoned it at least for a time for Babylonia where the exiles were; and the departure by the eastern gate is described in Ezekiel 10:18 f.

(In Ezekiel 10:14 for cherub we should perhaps read ox: cf. Ezekiel 1:10.)