Genesis 3:24
So He drove out HaAdam; and He placed miKedem (at the east) of the Gan Eden HaKeruvim, and a flaming cherev which was ever-turning, to be shomer over the Derech Etz HaChayyim. + 3:24 the Way of the Tree of Life, see Yn 14:6 on Derech
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Genesis 2:8And Hashem Elohim planted a gan (garden) eastward in Eden; and there He put the adam whom He had formed.
Exodus 25:18And thou shalt make two keruvim of zahav, of beaten work shalt thou make them, in the two ends of the kapporet.
Joshua 5:13And it came to pass, when Yehoshua was there by Yericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and, hinei, there stood an ish in front of him with his cherev drawn in his yad; and Yehoshua went unto him, and said unto him, Art thou for us, or for our adversaries?
1 Kings 6:25And the other keruv was ten cubits; both the keruvim were of one measure and one size.
Psalms 80:1(For the one directing. Set to The Lilies of the Edut. Of Asaph. Mizmor.) 1
Psalms 104:4Who maketh ruchot (spirits, winds) His malachim; 1 His mesharetim (ministers), flaming eish. 1
Matthew Henry on Genesis 3:23-24
Adam and Eve Expelled from Eden. ( b. c. 4004.) 22 And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever: 23 Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken. 24 So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.… Read the whole commentary →