Ezekiel 1:18

As for their rings, they were high and they were dreadful; and they four had their rings full of eyes round about.

JPS TaNaKH 1917

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 toward their four sides; they turned not when they went.

19And when the living creatures went, the wheels went hard by them; and when the living creatures were lifted up from the bottom, the wheels were lifted up.

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Cross References

Job 37:22Out of the north cometh golden splendour, about God is terrible majesty.

Psalms 97:2Clouds and darkness are round about Him; righteousness and justice are the foundation of His throne.

Isaiah 55:9For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts.

Zechariah 4:10For who hath despised the day of small things? even they shall see with joy the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel, even these seven, which are the eyes of the LORD, that run to and fro through the whole earth.'

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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