Ezekiel 10:21

Every one had four faces and every one had four wings; and hands like a man's hands were under their wings.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

Every one had four faces apiece, and every one four wings; and the likeness of the hands of a man was under their wings.

In Context

20This is the living being which I saw under the God of Israel by the river Chebar; and it was clear to me that they were the winged ones.

22As for the form of their faces, they were the faces whose form I saw by the river Chebar; when they went, every one of them went straight forward.

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Cross References

Ezekiel 1:8And they had the hands of a man under their wings; the four of them had faces on their four sides.

Ezekiel 41:18And it had pictured forms of winged beings and palm-trees; a palm-tree between two winged ones, and every winged one had two faces;

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 10:9-22

The Vision of the Divine Glory. ( b. c. 593.) 8 And there appeared in the cherubims the form of a man's hand under their wings. 9 And when I looked, behold the four wheels by the cherubims, one wheel by one cherub, and another wheel by another cherub: and the appearance of the wheels was as the colour of a beryl stone. 10 And as for their appearances, they four had one likeness, as if a wheel had been in the midst of a wheel. 11 When they went, they went upon their four sides; they turned not as they went, but to… Read the whole commentary →

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