Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Ezekiel 43:4
And the glory of the LORD came into the house by the way of the gate whose prospect [is] toward the east.
4. The glory of the Lord enters the house by the E. gate, by which he had departed from it, Eze 10:19, Eze 11:22-23.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
By this gate the glory of the Lord had departed. See the marginal reference.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
The glory: see Eze 43:3.
Came; the sins of impenitent Israel caused the glory of the Lord to go out of his house, but now the repentance of Israel is blessed with the return of this glory.
Into the house; the temple where before it dwelt.
Whose prospect is toward the east; whose front looks eastward: see Eze 43:2.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
And the glory of the Lord came into the house, e.] Before described and measured and being fitted and prepared, the builder and owner of it comes and takes up his residence in it; as Christ will do in his church, more especially and more visibly in the latter day:
by the way of the gate whose prospect is towards the east; which was the direct way into the outward court, and so to the inward court, and into the holy, and into the most holy place; and was the way by which he departed from hence, Eze 10:18.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
‘And the glory of Yahweh came into the house by way of the gate whose prospect is towards the east.’
The glory of Yahweh now entered the heavenly temple situated ‘on a very high mountain somewhere in the land’ (Eze 40:2), through the East Gate. It was nineteen years since Ezekiel had seen Yahweh leave the land. Now He had returned (compare Eze 10:4; Eze 44:4; Exo 40:34-35 1Ki 8:10-11; Isa 6:1-3), but to His own temple, not one built by man. That made Israel’s future for the present secure. Again this demonstrates that this heavenly temple was an actuality at the time that Ezekiel was speaking.
Patterned on this the glory of Yahweh would also enter the second temple when it was built under Zerubbabel as a foretaste of the glory in the everlasting kingdom under the everlasting king (Hag 2:7 with 21-23).
Fuente: Commentary Series on the Bible by Peter Pett
Eze 43:4 And the glory of the LORD came into the house by the way of the gate whose prospect [is] toward the east.
Ver. 4. And the glory of the Lord. ] See Eze 43:2 .
By the way of the gate.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
the LORD. Hebrew. Jehovah. App-4.
the house, Not Solomon’s Temple, but the Temple which he had been shown in vision (Ezekiel 11 and Ezekiel 42).
the gate. Not the present gate on the east side of the Temple area, but that of the yet future Temple (Eze 40:6; Eze 40:42, Eze 40:15; Eze 44:1; Eze 46:1).
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
the glory: Though the personal presence of Immanuel in the second temple rendered it more glorious than that of Solomon – Hag 2:5-9, yet this part of the vision rather relates to the times predicted in the whole of this description, those which shall succeed the conversion of the Jews, and their restoration to their own land.
came: Eze 10:18, Eze 10:19, Eze 44:2
Reciprocal: Exo 40:34 – a cloud 1Ki 8:11 – for the glory Eze 10:3 – and the Eze 11:1 – the east Eze 11:23 – the glory Eze 44:1 – looketh Eze 44:4 – the glory
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Eze 43:4. The glory of the Lord that came from the east entered even into the house that had been measured with the reed.
Fuente: Combined Bible Commentary
43:4 And the {b} glory of the LORD came into the house by the way of the gate whose prospect [is] toward the east.
(b) Which was departed before, Eze 10:4; Eze 12:22 .
Fuente: Geneva Bible Notes
Yahweh’s glory entered the temple through the east gate, the same gate through which Ezekiel had formerly seen it leave the city. The Holy Spirit transported Ezekiel in his vision to the inner court, and there he saw that God’s glory had filled the temple (cf. Exo 24:9-17; Exo 34:29-30; Luk 2:8-10). Similarly the glory of God had come upon and filled the tabernacle at its dedication (Exo 40:34-35) and Solomon’s temple at its dedication (1Ki 8:10-11; 2Ch 5:13-14; 2Ch 7:1-3).