Ezekiel 1:18

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

Leeser Tanakh

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

17Toward their four sides they went in their going: they turned not round in their going.

19And when the living creatures went, the wheels went near to them: and when the living creatures lifted themselves up from the earth, the wheels lifted themselves up.

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Cross References

Job 37:22The golden [light] that cometh out of the north: around God is terrible majesty.

Psalms 97:2Clouds and thick darkness are round about him: righteousness and justice are the support of his throne.

Isaiah 55:9For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so high are my ways above your ways, and my thoughts above your thoughts.

Zechariah 4:10For whoever even despised the day of [its] small beginning: yet will they rejoice when they see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel, with those seven; they are the eyes of the Lord, which hold a survey through all the 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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