Ezekiel 1:17

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

World English Bible British with Deuterocanon

In The King James Version

When they went, they went upon their four sides: and they turned not when they went.

In Context

16The appearance of the wheels and their work was like a beryl. The four of them had one likeness. Their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel within a wheel.

18As for their rims, they were high and dreadful; and the four of them had their rims full of eyes all around.

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Cross References

Ezekiel 1:9Their wings were joined to one another. They didn’t turn when they went. Each one went straight forward.

Ezekiel 10:1Then I looked, and see, in the expanse that was over the head of the cherubim there appeared above them as it were a sapphire stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a throne.

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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