Ezekiel 1:8

And hands of man [were visible] from beneath their wings on their four sides: and their faces and their wings [were alike] on all these four.

Leeser Tanakh

In The King James Version

And they had the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides; and they four had their faces and their wings.

In Context

7And their feet were straight feet; and the sole of their feet was like the sole of a calf's foot: and they sparkled like the glitter of burnished copper.

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.

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Cross References

Isaiah 6:6Then flew unto me one of the seraphim, and in his hand was a live coal, with the tongs had he taken it from off the altar:

Ezekiel 8:3And he stretched forth the form of a hand, and took me by the locks of my head; and a spirit bore me between the earth and the heaven, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the inner gate that looketh toward the north, where was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provoketh to wrath.

Ezekiel 10:7And the one cherub stretched forth his hand from between the cherubim unto the fire that was between the cherubim, and lifted it up, and placed it into the hands of the one clothed in linen; who took it, and went out.

Ezekiel 10:18And the glory of the Lord went forth from off the threshold of the house, and halted over the cherubim.

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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