Ezekiel 1:12

And they each go straight forward, to where the Spirit is to go, they go, they do not turn around in their going.

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

And they went every one straight forward: whither the spirit was to go, they went; and they turned not when they went.

In Context

11And their faces and their wings dividing from above, of each [are] two joining together, and two are covering their bodies.

13As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearances [are] as coals of fire—burning as the appearance of lamps; it is going up and down between the living creatures, and brightness [is] to the fire, and lightning is going forth out of the fire.

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Cross References

Ezekiel 1:17On their four sides, in their going they go, they do not turn around in their going.

Ezekiel 10:22And the likeness of their faces, they [are] the faces that I saw by the river Chebar, their appearances and themselves; they each go 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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