Ezekiel 10:20

This is the living creature which I saw under the God of Israel by the river of Chebar; and I knew that they were cherubs.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

This is the living creature that I saw under the God of Israel by the river of Chebar; and I knew that they were the cherubims.

In Context

19And the cherubs lifted up their wings, and mounted up from the earth in my sight: when they went forth, the wheels were also beside them, and they stood at the entrance of the front gate of the house of the Lord; and the glory of the God of Israel was upon them above.

21Each one had four faces, and each one had eight wings; and under their wings was the likeness of men’s hands.

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Cross References

1 Kings 6:29He graved all the walls of the house round about with the graving of cherubs, and he sculptured palm trees within and without the house.

Ezekiel 1:1Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, on the fifth day of the month, that I was in the midst of the captivity by the river of Chebar; and the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.

Ezekiel 1:22And the likeness over the heads of the living creatures was as a firmament, as the appearance of crystal, spread out over their wings above.

Ezekiel 10:15And the cherubs were the same living creature which I saw by the river of Chebar.

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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