Ezekiel 1:9

Their wings were joined to one another. They didn’t turn when they went. Each one went straight forward.

World English Bible

In The King James Version

Their wings were joined one to another; they turned not when they went; they went every one straight forward.

In Context

8They had the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides. The four of them had their faces and their wings like this:

10As for the likeness of their faces, they had the face of a man. The four of them had the face of a lion on the right side. The four of them had the face of an ox on the left side. The four of them also had the face of an eagle.

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 3:11The wings of the cherubim were twenty cubits long: the wing of the one was five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house; and the other wing was five cubits, reaching to the wing of the other cherub.

Ezekiel 1:11Such were their faces. Their wings were spread out above. Two wings of each one touched another, and two covered their bodies.

Ezekiel 10:22As for the likeness of their faces, they were the faces which I saw by the river Chebar, their appearances and themselves. They each went straight forward.

Luke 9:62But Jesus said to him, “No one, having put his hand to the plow and looking back, is fit for God’s Kingdom.”

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 →

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