Ezekiel 1:9

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

JPS TaNaKH 1917

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 as for the faces and wings of them four,

10As for the likeness of their faces, they had the face of a man; and they four had the face of a lion on the right side; and they four had the face of an ox on the left side; they four had also the face of an eagle.

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 3:11And the wings of the cherubim were twenty cubits long: the wing of the one cherub was five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house; and the other wing was likewise five cubits, reaching to the wing of the other cherub.

Ezekiel 1:11Thus were their faces; and their wings were stretched upward; two wings of every one were joined one to another, and two covered their bodies.

Ezekiel 10:22And as for the likeness of their faces, they were the faces which I saw by the river Chebar, their appearances and themselves; they went every one straight forward.

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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