Thematic Bible
Ezekiel 10:1 (show verse)
Then I looked, and behold, in the expanse (firmament) that was over the heads of the cherubim there appeared something [glorious and brilliant] above them looking like a [huge] sapphire stone, formed to resemble a throne.
Ezekiel 10:2 (show verse)
And the Lord spoke to the man (seventh angel) clothed in linen and said, “Go between the whirling wheels under the cherubim; fill your hands with coals of fire from between the cherubim and scatter them over the city.” And he entered as I watched.
Ezekiel 10:3 (show verse)
Now the cherubim were standing on the right side of the temple when the man entered; and a cloud [the Shekinah glory of God] filled the inner courtyard.
Ezekiel 10:4 (show verse)
Then the glory and brilliance of the Lord moved upward from the cherubim to [rest over] the threshold of the temple; and the temple was filled with the cloud and the courtyard was filled with the brightness of the Lord’s glory.
Ezekiel 10:5 (show verse)
And the sound of the wings of the cherubim was heard [even] as far as the outer courtyard, like the voice of God Almighty when He speaks.
Ezekiel 10:6 (show verse)
It came about when He commanded the man clothed in linen, saying, “Take fire from between the whirling wheels, from between the cherubim,” the man entered and stood beside a wheel.
Ezekiel 10:7 (show verse)
Then a cherub stretched out his hand from between the cherubim to the fire that was between [the four of] them, and took some [of it] and put it into the hands of the man clothed in linen, who took it and departed.
Ezekiel 10:8 (show verse)
Beneath their wings the cherubim seemed to have [something in] the form of a man’s hand.
No Themes for this verse.
Ezekiel 10:9 (show verse)
Then I looked and behold, [there were] four wheels beside the cherubim, one wheel beside one cherub and another wheel beside each other cherub; and the appearance of the wheels was like a sparkling Tarshish stone (beryl).
Ezekiel 10:10 (show verse)
As for their appearance, all four looked alike, as if one wheel were within another wheel.
Ezekiel 10:11 (show verse)
When they moved, they went in any of their four directions without turning as they went; but they followed in the direction which they faced, without turning as they went.
Ezekiel 10:12 (show verse)
Their whole body, their backs, their hands, their wings, and the wheels were full of eyes all around, even the wheels belonging to all four of them.
Ezekiel 10:13 (show verse)
Regarding the wheels [attached to them], I heard them called, “the whirling (rolling, revolving) wheels.”
Ezekiel 10:14 (show verse)
And each one had four faces: the first face was the face of the cherub, the second the face of a man, the third the face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle.
Ezekiel 10:15 (show verse)
Then the cherubim rose upward. They are the [same four] living beings [regarded as one] that I saw by the River Chebar [in Babylonia].
Ezekiel 10:16 (show verse)
Now when the cherubim moved, the wheels would go beside them; and when the cherubim lifted up their wings to rise from the earth, the wheels would remain beside them.
Ezekiel 10:17 (show verse)
When the cherubim stood still, the wheels would stand still; and when they rose upward, the wheels would rise with them, for the spirit of the living beings was in these [wheels].
Ezekiel 10:18 (show verse)
Then the [Shekinah] glory of the Lord departed from the threshold of the temple and rested over the cherubim.
Ezekiel 10:19 (show verse)
As I looked at them, the cherubim lifted up their wings and rose up from the earth, they departed with the wheels beside them; and they stood still at the entrance of the east gate of the house of the Lord, and the glory and brilliance of the God of Israel hovered over them.
Ezekiel 10:20 (show verse)
These are the living beings that I saw beneath the God of Israel by the River Chebar; and I knew that they were cherubim.
Ezekiel 10:21 (show verse)
Each one had four faces and each one had four wings, and beneath their wings was the form of human hands.
No Themes for this verse.
Ezekiel 10:22 (show verse)
As for the likeness of their faces, they were the same faces whose appearance I had seen by the River Chebar. Each one went straight forward.