Ezekiel 1:18

neither did their backs turn: and they were high: and I beheld them, and the backs of them four were full of eyes round about.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

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

17They went on their four sides: they turned not as they went;

19And when the living creatures went, the wheels went by them: and when the living creatures lifted themselves off the earth, the wheels were lifted off.

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Cross References

Job 37:22From the north come the clouds shining like gold: 1 In these great are the glory and honor of the Almighty; 1

Psalms 97:2The Lord has made known his salvation, 1 He has revealed his righteousness in the sight of the nations. 1

Isaiah 55:9But as the heaven is distant from the earth, so is my way distant from your ways, and your thoughts from my mind.

Zechariah 4:10For who has despised the small days? surely they shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet of tin in the hand of Zerubbabel: these are the seven eyes that look upon 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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