Ezekiel
10
- I looked, and I saw the likeness of a throne
of sapphire above the expanse that was over the heads of the cherubim.
- The LORD said to the man clothed in linen,
"Go in among the wheels beneath the cherubim. Fill your hands with burning
coals from among the cherubim and scatter them over the city." And as
I watched, he went in.
- Now the cherubim were standing on the south
side of the temple when the man went in, and a cloud filled the inner court.
- Then the glory of the LORD rose from above
the cherubim and moved to the threshold of the temple. The cloud filled the
temple, and the court was full of the radiance of the glory of the LORD.
- The sound of the wings of the cherubim could
be heard as far away as the outer court, like the voice of God Almighty when
he speaks.
- When the LORD commanded the man in linen,
"Take fire from among the wheels, from among the cherubim," the
man went in and stood beside a wheel.
- Then one of the cherubim reached out his
hand to the fire that was among them. He took up some of it and put it into
the hands of the man in linen, who took it and went out.
- (Under the wings of the cherubim could be
seen what looked like the hands of a man.)
- I looked, and I saw beside the cherubim
four wheels, one beside each of the cherubim; the wheels sparkled like chrysolite.
- As for their appearance, the four of them
looked alike; each was like a wheel intersecting a wheel.
- As they moved, they would go in any one
of the four directions the cherubim faced; the wheels did not turn about as
the cherubim went. The cherubim went in whatever direction the head faced,
without turning as they went.
- Their entire bodies, including their backs,
their hands and their wings, were completely full of eyes, as were their four
wheels.
- I heard the wheels being called "the
whirling wheels."
- Each of the cherubim had four faces: One
face was that of a cherub, the second the face of a man, the third the face
of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle.
- Then the cherubim rose upward. These were
the living creatures I had seen by the Kebar River.
- When the cherubim moved, the wheels beside
them moved; and when the cherubim spread their wings to rise from the ground,
the wheels did not leave their side.
- When the cherubim stood still, they also
stood still; and when the cherubim rose, they rose with them, because the
spirit of the living creatures was in them.
- Then the glory of the LORD departed from
over the threshold of the temple and stopped above the cherubim.
- While I watched, the cherubim spread their
wings and rose from the ground, and as they went, the wheels went with them.
They stopped at the entrance to the east gate of the LORD'S house, and the
glory of the God of Israel was above them.
- These were the living creatures I had seen
beneath the God of Israel by the Kebar River, and I realized that they were
cherubim.
- Each had four faces and four wings, and
under their wings was what looked like the hands of a man.
- Their faces had the same appearance as those
I had seen by the Kebar River. Each one went straight ahead.
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