Ezekiel 10:18

Then the glory of the LORD  departed from over the threshold of the temple and stopped above the cherubim.

From Background Notes [BN] for September 22^nd & 23^rd  written by Pastor Bob Brown:

The temple, a casualty of Babylonian armies in 587 B.C.E., was gone, and the loss of this national symbol meant that the Jews had no visible sign of God’s presence among His people. Yahweh, Israel’s God, had promised to live among His people as their Creator and Redeemer...

 

 

The prophet Ezekiel witnessed Yahweh’s departure from the Jerusalem temple, and he accompanied the exiled Jews to Babylon. Yet there had been no similar witness to the return of Yahweh back to the land when the exiles returned: no cloud of glory, no pillar of fire, and no temple filled with smoke, as had been the case when Solomon had dedicated the first temple (2 Chronicles 7:1-3).[BN, 1]

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