Ezekiel 1:18

As for their rims, they were high and fearful. And those four had their rims full of eyes round about.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

As for their rings, they were so high that they were dreadful; and their rings were full of eyes round about them four.

In Context

17When they went, they went in their four directions. They did not turn when they went.

19And when the living creatures went, the wheels went beside them. And when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up.

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Cross References

Job 37:22Out of the north comes golden splendor. God has upon him awesome majesty.

Psalms 97:2Clouds and darkness are round about him. Righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne.

Isaiah 55:9For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.

Zechariah 4:10For who has despised the day of small things? For these seven shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel, the eyes of LORD, which run to and fro through the whole earth.

Revelation 4:8And the four beings, one by one, each having six wings, are full of eyes around and inside. And they have no cessation day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord, the Almighty God, he was, and who is, and who is coming.

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 1:16-26

The Vision of the Wheels. ( b. c. 595.) 15 Now as I beheld the living creatures, behold one wheel upon the earth by the living creatures, with his four faces. 16 The appearance of the wheels and their work was like unto the colour of a beryl: and they four had one likeness: and their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel. 17 When they went, they went upon their four sides: and they turned not when they went. 18 As for their rings, they were so high that they were dreadful; and… Read the whole commentary →

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