And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there, according to the vision that I saw in the plain.

And behold the glory of the God of Israel was there, according to the vision which I had seen in the plain.

And behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there, according to the appearance that I saw in the valley.

and lo, there the honour of the God of Israel, as the appearance that I saw in the valley.

And I saw the glory of the Lord there, as in the vision which I saw in the valley.

And behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there, in accord with the vision that I had seen in the plain.

Et ecce illic gloria Dei Israel, secundum visionem quam videram in planicie. [175]

Now he only says that he saw God's glory as he had formerly beheld it near the bank of the river. This was as it were the seal of his prophecy: for the holy man ought to be so strengthened, that he should boldly restrain the furious audacity and obstinacy of the people. Hence he had to strive with hard heads, and God did not arm him in vain; and to this end again a new vision was offered. He knew that to be the glory of God. Hence he was again made more certain that the whole action was under divine direction, and that it was neither human nor fictitious, nor deceptive nor doubtful. It follows --

The glory of the Lord having departed from His seat between the cherubims in the holy of holies (see Ezekiel 9:3) rests in the threshold of the temple, to execute vengeance before it quits the house altogether Ezekiel 10:18. The "there" in the inner court, which was "full of the brightness of the Lord'S glory" Ezekiel 10:4, and at the gate of which Ezekiel stands.

The vision that I saw in the plain - see the note on Ezekiel 3:23 (note); see also Ezekiel 1:3 (note).

And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel [was] there, according to the vision that I saw (g) in the plain.
(g) Read (Ezekiel 3:22).

And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there,.... In the temple, between the cherubim, where the Shechinah or the glory of the divine Majesty dwelt; for as yet he had not removed, though provoked to it, and as he afterwards did; or he was here to destroy the idols, and both city and temple, for the idolatry of the people; or this is here mentioned, to show the baseness and wickedness of the people, that they should place an idol where the Lord himself was:
according to the vision that I saw in the plain; it was the same glorious Person he saw in the temple whom he had before seen in the plain, Ezekiel 3:22; and that was the same he had seen in the vision by the river Chebar, Ezekiel 1:3.

The Shekinah cloud of Jehovah's glory, notwithstanding the provocation of the idol, still remains in the temple, like that which Ezekiel saw "in the plain" (Ezekiel 3:22-23); not till Ezekiel 10:4, Ezekiel 10:18 did it leave the temple at Jerusalem, showing the long-suffering of God, which ought to move the Jews to repentance.