with tf.device('/cpu:0'), tf.name_scope("embedding"):
    W = tf.Variable(
        tf.random_uniform([vocab_size, embedding_size], -1.0, 1.0),
        name="W")
    self.embedded_chars = tf.nn.embedding_lookup(W, self.input_x)
    self.embedded_chars_expanded = tf.expand_dims(self.embedded_chars, -1)​

I use this method to load and share embedding.

W = tf.get_variable(name="W", shape=embedding.shape, initializer=tf.constant_initializer(embedding), trainable=False)

The answer of @mrry is not right because it provoques the overwriting of the embeddings weights each the network is run, so if you are following a minibatch approach to train your network, you are overwriting the weights of the embeddings. So, on my point of view the right way to pre-trained embeddings is:

embeddings = tf.get_variable("embeddings", shape=[dim1, dim2], initializer=tf.constant_initializer(np.array(embeddings_matrix))

With tensorflow version 2 its quite easy if you use the Embedding layer

X=tf.keras.layers.Embedding(input_dim=vocab_size,
                            output_dim=300,
                            input_length=Length_of_input_sequences,
                            embeddings_initializer=matrix_of_pretrained_weights
                            )(ur_inp)

!pip install "tensorflow_hub>=0.6.0"
  !pip install "tensorflow>=2.0.0"

  import tensorflow as tf
  import tensorflow_hub as hub

  module_url = "https://tfhub.dev/google/universal-sentence-encoder/4"
  embed = hub.KerasLayer(module_url)
  embeddings = embed(["A long sentence.", "single-word",
                      "http://example.com"])
  print(embeddings.shape)  #(3,128)​

For more information the Pre-Trained Embeddings developed and open-sourced by Google, refer TF Hub Link.