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