Ezekiel 1:9

And the wings of one were joined to the wings of another. They turned not when they went: but every one went straight forward.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

Their wings were joined one to another; they turned not when they went; they went every one straight forward.

In Context

8And they had the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides: and they bad faces, and wings on the four sides,

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.

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 3:11The wings of the cherubims were extended twenty cubits, so that one wing was five cubits long, and reached to the wall of the house: and the other was also five cubits long, and reached to the wing of the other cherub.

Ezekiel 1:11And their faces, and their wings were stretched upward: two wings of every one were joined, and two covered their bodies:

Ezekiel 10:22And as to the likeness of their faces, they were the same faces which I had seen by the river Chobar, and their looks, and the impulse of every one to go straight forward.

Luke 9:62Jesus said to him: No man putting his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.

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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