Ezekiel 1:11

And their faces, and their wings were stretched upward: two wings of every one were joined, and two covered their bodies:

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

Thus were their faces: and their wings were stretched upward; two wings of every one were joined one to another, and two covered their bodies.

In Context

10And as for the likeness of their faces: there was the face of a man, and the face of a lion on the right side of all the four: and the face of an ox, on the left side of all the four: and the face of an eagle over all the four.

12And every one of them went straight forward: whither the impulse of the spirit was to go, thither they went: and they turned not when they went.

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Cross References

Ezekiel 1:23And under the firmament were their wings straight, the one toward the other, every one with two wings covered his body, and the other was covered in like manner.

Ezekiel 10:19And the cherubims lifting up their wings, were raised from the earth before me: and as they went out, the wheels also followed: and it stood in the entry of the east gate of the house of the Lord: and the glory of the God of Israel was over them.

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 1:5-15

Vision of the Four Living Creatures. ( b. c. 595.) 4 And I looked, and, behold, a whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire infolding itself, and a brightness was about it, and out of the midst thereof as the colour of amber, out of the midst of the fire. 5 Also out of the midst thereof came the likeness of four living creatures. And this was their appearance; they had the likeness of a man. 6 And every one had four faces, and every one had four wings. 7 And their feet were straight feet; and the… Read the whole commentary →

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