Ezekiel 1:18

The wheels had also a size, and a height, and a dreadful appearance: and the whole body was full of eyes round about all the four.

Douay-Rheims 1899

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 by their four parts: and they turned not when they went.

19And when the living creatures went, the wheels also went together by them: and when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels also were lifted up with them.

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Cross References

Job 37:22Cold cometh out of the north, and to God praise with fear.

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

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

Zechariah 4:10For who hath despised little days? and they shall rejoice, and shall see the tin plummet in the hand of Zorobabel. These are the seven eyes of the Lord, that run to and fro through the whole earth.

Revelation 4:8And the four living creatures had each of them six wings; and round about and within they are full of eyes. And they rested not day and night, saying: Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, who was, and who is, and who is to come.

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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