Ezekiel 1:12

Each creature went straight ahead. Wherever the spirit would go, they would go, without turning as they moved.

Berean Standard Bible

In The King James Version

And they went every one straight forward: whither the spirit was to go, they went; and they turned not when they went.

In Context

11Such were their faces. Their wings were spread upward; each had two wings touching the wings of the creature on either side, and two wings covering its body.

13In the midst of the living creatures was the appearance of glowing coals of fire, or of torches. Fire moved back and forth between the living creatures; it was bright, and lightning flashed out of it.

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Cross References

Ezekiel 1:17As they moved, they went in any of the four directions, without pivoting as they moved.

Ezekiel 10:22Their faces looked like the faces I had seen by the River Kebar. Each creature went straight ahead.

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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