Ezekiel 1:17

Toward their four sides they went in their going: they turned not round in their going.

Leeser Tanakh

In The King James Version

When they went, they went upon their four sides: and they turned not when they went.

In Context

16The appearance of the wheels and their work was like the color of a chrysolite; and all four had one likeness: and their appearance and their work was as though it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel.

18As for their circumferences, they were so high that they excited fear: and their felloes were full of eyes round about on all these four.

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Cross References

Ezekiel 1:9Their wings were joined one to the other: they turned not about in their going; they went every one in the direction of one of their faces.

Ezekiel 10:1Then I saw, and, behold, on the vault that was above the head of the cherubim, there appeared over them something like a sapphire stone, something similar in appearance to the likeness of a throne.

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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