Ezekiel 1:15
While I looked at the four living creatures, I saw a wheel on the ground beside each of them.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
In Context
14The creatures moved back and forth extremely rapidly, like [SIM] flashes of lightning.
Cross References
1 Kings 7:30Each cart had four bronze wheels and two axles made of bronze. At the top corners of each cart were bronze supports to hold up a basin. On these supports were also decorations of bronze wreaths.
Ezekiel 1:19Whenever the living creatures moved, the wheels moved with them. So whenever the creatures rose from the ground, the wheels also rose up.
Ezekiel 10:13I heard someone call them ‘the whirling wheels’.
Revelation 4:7The first living creature was like a lion. The second living creature was like an ox. The third living creature had a face like a man’s face. The fourth living creature was like an eagle that was flying. Each of the four living creatures had six wings. They were covered with eyes, all around their bodies and under their wings. Day and night they continually [LIT] sing: Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God, the Almighty One. He is the one who has always existed, who exists now, and who will always exist.
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 →