King James VersionEzekiel10

Ezekiel

1 Then I looked, and, be­hold, in the fir­ma­ment that was above the head of the cheru­bims there ap­peared over them as it were a sap­phire stone, as the ap­pear­ance of the like­ness of a throne. 2 And he spake unto the man clothed with linen, and said, Go in be­tween the wheels, even un­der the cherub, and fill thine hand with coals of fire from be­tween the cheru­bims, and scat­ter them over the city. And he went in in my sight. 3 Now the cheru­bims stood on the right side of the house, when the man went in; and the cloud filled the in­ner court. 4 Then the glo­ry of the LORD went up from the cherub, and stood over the thresh­old of the house; and the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was full of the bright­ness of the LORD'S glo­ry. 5 And the sound of the cheru­bims' wings was heard even to the out­er court, as the voice of the Almighty God when he speaketh. 6 And it came to pass, that when he had com­mand­ed the man clothed with linen, say­ing, Take fire from be­tween the wheels, from be­tween the cheru­bims; then he went in, and stood be­side the wheels. 7 And one cherub stretched forth his hand from be­tween the cheru­bims unto the fire that was be­tween the cheru­bims, and took thereof, and put it into the hands of him that was clothed with linen: who took it, and went out. 8 And there ap­peared in the cheru­bims the form of a man's hand un­der their wings. 9 And when I looked, be­hold the four wheels by the cheru­bims, one wheel by one cherub, and an­oth­er wheel by an­oth­er cherub: and the ap­pear­ance of the wheels was as the colour of a beryl stone. 10 And as for their ap­pear­ances, they four had one like­ness, as if a wheel had been in the midst of a wheel. 11 When they went, they went upon their four sides; they turned not as they went, but to the place whith­er the head looked they fol­lowed it; they turned not as they went. 12 And their whole body, and their backs, and their hands, and their wings, and the wheels, were full of eyes round about, even the wheels that they four had. 13 As for the wheels, it was cried unto them in my hear­ing, O wheel. 14 And ev­ery one had four faces: the first face was the face of a cherub, and the sec­ond face was the face of a man, and the third the face of a li­on, and the fourth the face of an ea­gle. 15 And the cheru­bims were lift­ed up. This is the liv­ing crea­ture that I saw by the riv­er of Chebar. 16 And when the cheru­bims went, the wheels went by them: and when the cheru­bims lift­ed up their wings to mount up from the earth, the same wheels also turned not from be­side them. 17 When they stood, these stood; and when they were lift­ed up, these lift­ed up them­selves also: for the spir­it of the liv­ing crea­ture was in them. 18 Then the glo­ry of the LORD de­part­ed from off the thresh­old of the house, and stood over the cheru­bims. 19 And the cheru­bims lift­ed up their wings, and mount­ed up from the earth in my sight: when they went out, the wheels also were be­side them, and ev­ery one stood at the door of the east gate of the LORD'S house; and the glo­ry of the God of Is­rael was over them above. 20 This is the liv­ing crea­ture that I saw un­der the God of Is­rael by the riv­er of Chebar; and I knew that they were the cheru­bims. 21 Ev­ery one had four faces apiece, and ev­ery one four wings; and the like­ness of the hands of a man was un­der their wings. 22 And the like­ness of their faces was the same faces which I saw by the riv­er of Chebar, their ap­pear­ances and them­selves: they went ev­ery one straight for­ward.