Ezekiel 10:17

When they stood, the wheels stood; and when they mounted up, the wheels mounted up with them: because the spirit of life was in them.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

When they stood, these stood; and when they were lifted up, these lifted up themselves also: for the spirit of the living creature was in them.

In Context

16And when the cherubs went, the wheels went, and they were close to them: and when the cherubs lifted up their wings to mount up from the earth, their wheels turned not.

18Then the glory of the Lord departed from the house, and went up on the cherubs.

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Cross References

Ezekiel 1:12And each one went straight forward: wherever the spirit was going they went, and turned not back.

Ezekiel 1:21When those went, the wheels went; and when those stood, the wheels stood; and when those lifted themselves off the earth, they were lifted off with them: for the spirit of life was in the wheels.

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 10:9-22

The Vision of the Divine Glory. ( b. c. 593.) 8 And there appeared in the cherubims the form of a man's hand under their wings. 9 And when I looked, behold the four wheels by the cherubims, one wheel by one cherub, and another wheel by another cherub: and the appearance of the wheels was as the colour of a beryl stone. 10 And as for their appearances, they four had one likeness, as if a wheel had been in the midst of a wheel. 11 When they went, they went upon their four sides; they turned not as they went, but to… Read the whole commentary →

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