Ezekiel 1:18

As to their rings, they are both high and fearful, and their rings [are] full of eyes round about them four.

Young's Literal Translation

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

17On their four sides, in their going they go, they turn not round in their going.

19And in the going of the living creatures, the wheels go beside them, and in the living creatures being lifted up from off the earth, lifted up are the wheels.

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Cross References

Job 37:22From the golden north it cometh, Beside God [is] fearful honour.

Psalms 97:2Cloud and darkness [are] round about Him, Righteousness and judgment the basis of His throne.

Isaiah 55:9For high have the heavens been above the earth, So high have been My ways above your ways, And My thoughts above your thoughts.

Zechariah 4:10For who trampled on the day of small things, They have rejoiced, And seen the tin weight in the hand of Zerubbabel, These seven [are] the eyes of Jehovah, They are going to and fro in all the land.'

Revelation 4:8And the four living creatures, each by itself severally, had six wings, around and within [are] full of eyes, and rest they have not day and night, saying, 'Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, who was, and who is, and who is coming;'

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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