Print

---

Ezekiel 10:1-19

Then I looked, and above the dome that was over the heads of the cherubim
there appeared above them something like a sapphire, in form resembling a
throne.  He said to the man clothed in linen, "Go within the wheelwork
underneath the cherubim; fill your hands with burning coals from among the
cherubim, and scatter them over the city."  He went in as I looked on.
Now the cherubim were standing on the south side of the house when the man
went in; and a cloud filled the inner court.  Then the glory of the LORD
rose up from the cherub to the threshold of the house; the house was
filled with the cloud, and the court was full of the brightness of the
glory of the LORD.  The sound of the wings of the cherubim was heard as
far as the outer court, like the voice of God Almighty when he speaks.

When he commanded the man clothed in linen, "Take fire from within the
wheelwork, from among the cherubim," he went in and stood beside a wheel.
And a cherub stretched out his hand from among the cherubim to the fire
that was among the cherubim, took some of it and put it into the hands of
the man clothed in linen, who took it and went out.  The cherubim appeared
to have the form of a human hand under their wings.

I looked, and there were four wheels beside the cherubim, one beside each
cherub; and the appearance of the wheels was like gleaming beryl.  And as
for their appearance, the four looked alike, something like a wheel within
a wheel.  When they moved, they moved in any of the four directions
without veering as they moved; but in whatever direction the front wheel
faced, the others followed without veering as they moved.  Their entire
body, their rims, their spokes, their wings, and the wheels — the wheels
of the four of them — were full of eyes all around.  As for the wheels,
they were called in my hearing "the wheelwork."  Each one had four faces:
the first face was that of the cherub, the second face was that of a human
being, the third that of a lion, and the fourth that of an eagle.

The cherubim rose up.  These were the living creatures that I saw by the
river Chebar.  When the cherubim moved, the wheels moved beside them; and
when the cherubim lifted up their wings to rise up from the earth, the
wheels at their side did not veer.  When they stopped, the others stopped,
and when they rose up, the others rose up with them; for the spirit of the
living creatures was in them.

Then the glory of the LORD went out from the threshold of the house and
stopped above the cherubim.  The cherubim lifted up their wings and rose
up from the earth in my sight as they went out with the wheels beside
them.  They stopped at the entrance of the east gate of the house of the
LORD; and the glory of the God of Israel was above them.