Genesis 3:24
After Yahweh expelled them, on the east side of the garden he placed ◄cherubim/creatures with wings► and an angel holding a flaming sword which flashed back and forth. He did that in order to block the entrance to the garden, so that people could not go back to the tree that enables people who eat its fruit to live forever.
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Genesis 2:8Yahweh God made a park/garden in a place named Eden, which was east of the land of Canaan, and he put there the man that he had created.
Exodus 25:18Tell them to hammer huge lump of gold into the form of two creatures that have wings.
Joshua 5:13One day when Joshua came near Jericho, he looked up and saw a man standing in front of him. The man was holding a sword in his hand. Joshua approached him and asked him, “Are you going to fight for us or against us?”
Psalms 80:1Yahweh, you who lead us like a shepherd leads his flock of sheep, listen to us Israeli people. You sit on your throne in the Very Holy Place in the temple, above the carvings of winged creatures.
Psalms 104:4You caused the winds to be like your messengers [MET], and flames of fire to be like your servants.
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 →