Ezekiel 1:18

As for their rims, they were high and dreadful; and the four of them had their rims full of eyes all around.

World English Bible

In The King James Version

As for their rings, they were so high that they were dreadful; and their rings were full of eyes round about them four.

In Context

17When they went, they went in their four directions. They didn’t turn when they went.

19When the living creatures went, the wheels went beside them. When the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up.

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Cross References

Job 37:22Out of the north comes golden splendor. With God is awesome majesty.

Psalms 97:2Clouds and darkness are around him. Righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne.

Isaiah 55:9“For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.

Zechariah 4:10Indeed, who despises the day of small things? For these seven shall rejoice, and shall see the plumb line in the hand of Zerubbabel. These are the LORD’s eyes, which run back and forth through the whole earth.”

Revelation 4:8The four living creatures, each one of them having six wings, are full of eyes around and within. They have no rest day and night, saying, “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God, the Almighty, who was and who is and who is to come!”

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 1:16-26

The Vision of the Wheels. ( b. c. 595.) 15 Now as I beheld the living creatures, behold one wheel upon the earth by the living creatures, with his four faces. 16 The appearance of the wheels and their work was like unto the colour of a beryl: and they four had one likeness: and their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel. 17 When they went, they went upon their four sides: and they turned not when they went. 18 As for their rings, they were so high that they were dreadful; and… Read the whole commentary →

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