Ezequiel 10

¹ Then I looked, and, behold, in the firmament that was above the head of theWhich in (Eze_1:5) he called the four beasts.cherubim there appeared over them as it were a sapphire stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a throne.

² And he spoke to the man clothed with linen, and said, Go in between the wheels, [even] under the cherub, and fill thy hand with coals of fire from between the cherubim, and scatter [them] overThis signified that the city would be burnt.the city. And he entered in my sight.

³ Now the Cherubims stood vpon the right side of the house, when the man went in, and the cloude filled the inner court.

⁴ Then the glory of the LORDMeaning that the glory of God would depart from the temple.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 theRead (Eze_1:24).sound of the cherubim's wings was heard [even] to the outer court, as the voice of the Almighty God when he speaketh.

⁶ And when he had commaunded the man clothed with linnen, saying, Take fire from betweene the wheeles, & from betweene ye Cherubims, then he went in and stood beside ye wheele.

⁷ And one Cherub stretched forth his hand from betweene the Cherubims vnto the fire, that was betweene the Cherubims, and tooke thereof, and put it into the hands of him that was clothed with linnen: who tooke it and went out.

⁸ And there appeared in the Cherubims, the likenesse of a mans hande vnder their wings.

⁹ And when I looked, behold the four wheels by the cherubim, one wheel by one cherub, and another wheel by another cherub: and the appearance of the wheels [was] as the colour of aRead (Eze_1:16).beryl stone.

¹⁰ And their appearance (for they were all foure of one facion) was as if one wheele had bene in another wheele.

¹¹ When they went, they went upon their four sides; they turned not as they went, but to the place where the head looked they followed it; theyUntil they had executed God's judgments.turned not as they went.

¹² And their whole bodie, and their rings, and their hands, and their wings, & the wheeles were full of eyes round about, euen in the same foure wheeles.

¹³ And the Cherub cryed to these wheeles in mine hearing, saying, O wheele.

¹⁴ And euery beast had foure faces: the first face was the face of a Cherub, & the second face was the face of a man, and the thirde the face of a lyon, and the fourth the face of an Egle.

¹⁵ And the Cherubims were lifted vp: this is the beast that I sawe at the riuer Chebar.

¹⁶ And when ye Cherubims went, the wheeles went by them: and when the Cherubims lift vp their wings to mount vp from the earth, the same wheeles also turned not from beside them.

¹⁷ When they stood, [these] stood; and when they were lifted up, [these] lifted up themselves [also]: for theThere was one consent between the cherubims and the wheels.spirit of the living being [was] in them.

¹⁸ Read (Eze_9:3).Then the glory of the LORD departed from off the threshold of the house, and stood over the cherubim.

¹⁹ And the Cherubims lift vp their wings, and mounted vp from the earth in my sight: when they went out, the wheeles also were besides them: and euery one stoode at the entrie of the gate of the Lordes House at the East side, and the glorie of the God of Israel was vpo them on hie.

²⁰ This [is] theThat is, the whole body of the four beasts or cherubims.living being that I saw under the God of Israel by the river of Chebar; and I knew that they [were] the cherubim.

²¹ Euery one had foure faces, and euery one foure wings, and the likenesse of mans hands was vnder their wings.

²² And the likenes of their faces was the selfe same faces, which I sawe by the riuer Chebar, and the appearance of the Cherubims was ye selfe same, and they went euery one straight forwarde.