John Trapp on Ezekiel 9:3

Ver. 3. And the glory of the God of Iſrael] i. e. The Son of God appearing upon the glorious Charret, 1.3. & 3.23. and being the brightneſſe of his Fathers glory, the expreſſe image of his perſon, Heb. 1.3.

Was gone up from the Cherub] i. e. From thoſe four Cherubines, upon which the glory of the Lord did then appear to the Prophet, chap. 8.4. He was gone from his Ark, to ſhew that the refractary Jews were now diſcovenanted: and from his Mercy-ſeat, to ſhew that he would ſhew them no more mercy. Many removes God maketh in this and the two following Chapters, to ſhew his lothneſſe utterly to remove. And ſtill, as he goeth out, ſome judgement cometh in. Here he removeth from the Cherubims in the Oracle to the threſhold: and upon that remove ſee what followeth, ver. 5, 6, 7. So for the reſt, ſee chap. 10.1, 2. chap. 10.19. & 11.8, 9, 10. chap. 11.23. and when God was quite gone from the City, then followed the fatal calamity in the ruine thereof. But that he went away by degrees, and not ſoon and at once, was an argument of his very great love and long-ſuffering. He left them ſtep by ſtep as it were, and plaid Loth to depart: but that there was no remedy. Tyed he is not to any place, as theſe fond Jews thought he was to their viſible Temple, which now he is about therefore to abandon, and to make their very Sanctuary a ſlaughter-houſe.