Albert Barnes Commentary Ezekiel 8:4

"And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there, according to the appearance that I saw in the plain." — Ezekiel 8:4 (ASV)

The glory of the Lord, having departed from His seat between the cherubim in the Holy of Holies , rests in the threshold of the temple to execute vengeance before it leaves the house altogether (Ezekiel 10:18). That "there" is 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.