Ezekiel 10:3
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New International Version (©2011)
Now the cherubim were standing on the south side of the temple when the man went in, and a cloud filled the inner court.

New Living Translation (©2007)
The cherubim were standing at the south end of the Temple when the man went in, and the cloud of glory filled the inner courtyard.

English Standard Version (©2001)
Now the cherubim were standing on the south side of the house, when the man went in, and a cloud filled the inner court.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Now the cherubim were standing on the right side of the temple when the man entered, and the cloud filled the inner court.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Now the cherubims stood on the right side of the house, when the man went in; and the cloud filled the inner court.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Now the cherubim were standing to the south of the temple when the man went in, and the cloud filled the inner court.

International Standard Version (©2012)
Now the cherubim were standing on the south side of the entrance to the Temple, when the man entered and a cloud filled the inner court.

NET Bible (©2006)
(The cherubim were standing on the south side of the temple when the man went in, and a cloud filled the inner court.)

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
The angels were standing on the south side of the temple as the person went. A cloud filled the inner courtyard.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Now the cherubim stood on the right side of the house, when the man went in; and the cloud filled the inner court.

American King James Version
Now the cherubim stood on the right side of the house, when the man went in; and the cloud filled the inner court.

American Standard Version
Now the cherubim stood on the right side of the house, when the man went in; and the cloud filled the inner court.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the cherubims stood on the right side of the house, when the man went in, and a cloud filled the inner court.

Darby Bible Translation
And the cherubim stood on the right side of the house, when the man went in; and the cloud filled the inner court.

English Revised Version
Now the cherubim stood on the right side of the house, when the man went in; and the cloud filled the inner court.

Webster's Bible Translation
Now the cherubim stood on the right side of the house, when the man went in; and the cloud filled the inner court.

World English Bible
Now the cherubim stood on the right side of the house, when the man went in; and the cloud filled the inner court.

Young's Literal Translation
And the cherubs are standing on the right side of the house, at the going in of the man, and the cloud hath filled the inner court,

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

10:1-7 The fire being taken from between the wheels, under the cherubim, ch. 1:13, seems to have signified the wrath of God to be executed upon Jerusalem. It intimated that the fire of Divine wrath, which kindles judgment upon a people, is just and holy; and in the great day, the earth, and all the works that are therein, will be burnt up.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Now the cherubim stood on the right side of the house,.... According to the Targum, it was the south side of the house; and so Jarchi interprets it opposite to the north, where the gross idolatries were committed, Ezekiel 8:3; standing at the greatest distance from them, and bearing their testimony against them:

when the man went in; they stood as it were in a levee, through which the man passed, waiting upon him; paying a respect to him; assenting to what he did; and approving of it: this circumstance is mentioned, because they were not always in this position, only at this time; nor did they continue so; we afterwards hear of their motion:

and the cloud filled the inner court; the court of the priests, not as a token of God's presence, as at the dedication of the temple; but rather of judicial blindness and darkness, which the people of the Jews were left unto.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

3. right … of … house—The scene of the locality whence judgment emanates is the temple, to mark God's vindication of His holiness injured there. The cherubim here are not those in the holy of holies, for the latter had not "wheels." They stood on "the right of the house," that is, the south, for the Chaldean power, guided by them, had already advanced from the north (the direction of Babylon), and had destroyed the men in the temple, and was now proceeding to destroy the city, which lay south and west.

the cherubim … the man—There was perfect concert of action between the cherubic representative of the angels and "the Man," to minister to whom they "stood" there (Eze 10:7).

cloud—emblem of God's displeasure; as the "glory" or "brightness" (Eze 10:4) typifies His majesty and clearness in judgment.

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God's Glory Exits the Temple
1Then I looked, and, behold, in the firmament that was above the head of the cherubim there appeared over them as it were a sapphire stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a throne. 2And he spoke to the man clothed with linen, and said, Go in between the wheels, even under the cherub, and fill your hand with coals of fire from between the cherubim, and scatter them over the city. And he went in in my sight. 3Now the cherubim stood on the right side of the house, when the man went in; and the cloud filled the inner court. …

Genesis 3:24 After he drove the man out, he placed on the east side of the Garden of Eden cherubim and a flaming sword flashing back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life.
Ezekiel 8:3 He stretched out what looked like a hand and took me by the hair of my head. The Spirit lifted me up between earth and heaven and in visions of God he took me to Jerusalem, to the entrance of the north gate of the inner court, where the idol that provokes to jealousy stood.
Ezekiel 8:16 He then brought me into the inner court of the house of the LORD, and there at the entrance to the temple, between the portico and the altar, were about twenty-five men. With their backs toward the temple of the LORD and their faces toward the east, they were bowing down to the sun in the east.
Ezekiel 46:1 "'This is what the Sovereign LORD says: The gate of the inner court facing east is to be shut on the six working days, but on the Sabbath day and on the day of the New Moon it is to be opened.