Ezekiel 10:20

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

JPS TaNaKH 1917

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 cherubim lifted up their wings, and mounted up from the earth in my sight when they went forth, and the wheels beside them; and they stood at the door of the east gate of the LORD'S house; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them above.

21Every one had four faces apiece, and every one four wings; and the likeness of the hands of a man was under their wings.

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Cross References

1 Kings 6:29And he carved all the walls of the house round about with carved figures of cherubim and palm-trees and open flowers, within and without.

Ezekiel 1:1NOW IT came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I was among the captives by the river Chebar that the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.

Ezekiel 1:22And over the heads of the living creatures there was the likeness of a firmament, like the colour of the terrible ice, stretched forth over their heads above.

Ezekiel 10:15And the cherubim mounted up — this is the living creature that I saw by the river Chebar.

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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