Ezekiel 10:20

This is the living creature, which I saw under the God of Israel by the river Chobar: and I understood that they were cherubims.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

This is the living creature that I saw under the God of Israel by the river of Chebar; and I knew that they were the cherubims.

In Context

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.

21Each one had four faces, and each one had four wings: and the likeness of a man's hand was under their wings.

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Cross References

1 Kings 6:29And he overlaid the cherubims with gold.

Ezekiel 1:1Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, on the fifth day of the month, when I was in the midst of the captives by the river Chobar, the heavens were opened, and I saw the visions of God.

Ezekiel 1:22And over the heads of the living creatures was the likeness of the firmament, as the appearance of crystal terrible to behold, and stretched out over their heads above.

Ezekiel 10:15And the cherubims were lifted up: this is the living creature that I had seen by the river Chobar.

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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