AB - Ezekiel - 10

10:1  Then I looked, and behold, over the firmament that was above the head of the cherubim there was a likeness of a throne over them, as a sapphire stone.

10:2  And He said to the man clothed with the long robe, Go in between the wheels that are under the cherubim, and fill your hands with coals of fire from between the cherubim, and scatter them over the city. And he went in my sight.

10:3  And the cherubim stood on the right hand of the house, as the man went in; and the cloud filled the inner court.

10:4  Then the glory of the Lord departed from the cherubim to the porch of the house; and the cloud filled the house, and the court was filled with the brightness of the glory of the Lord.

10:5  And the sound of the wings of the Cherubim was heard as far as the outer court, as the voice of Almighty God speaking.

10:6  And it came to pass, when He gave a charge to the man clothed with the sacred robe, saying, Take fire from between the wheels from between the cherubim, that he went in, and stood near the wheels.

10:7  And he stretched forth his hand into the midst of the fire that was between the cherubim, and took thereof, and put it into the hands of the man clothed with the sacred robe: and he took it, and went out.

10:8  And I saw the cherubim having the likeness of men's hands under their wings.

10:9  And I saw, and behold, four wheels stood by the cherubim, one wheel by each cherub: and the appearance of the wheels was as the appearance of a carbuncle stone.

10:10  And as for their appearance, there was one likeness to the four, as if there should be a wheel in the midst of a wheel.

10:11  When they went, they went on their four sides; they turned not when they went, for whichever way the first head looked, they went; and they turned not as they went.

10:12  And their backs, and their hands, and their wings, and the wheels, were full of eyes round about the four wheels.

10:13  And these wheels were called Gelgel in my hearing.

10:15  And the cherubim were the same living creatures which I saw by the River Chebar.

10:16  And when the cherubim went, the wheels went, and they were close to them. And when the cherubim lifted up their wings to mount up from the earth, their wheels turned not.

10:17  When they stood, the wheels stood; and when they mounted up, the wheels mounted up with them, because the spirit of life was in them.

10:18  Then the glory of the Lord departed from the house, and went up on the cherubim.

10:19  And the cherubim lifted up their wings, and mounted up from the earth in my sight. When they went forth, the wheels were also beside them, and they stood at the entrance of the front gate of the house of the Lord; and the glory of the God of Israel was upon them above.

10:20  This is the living creature which I saw under the God of Israel by the River Chebar; and I knew that they were cherubim.

10:21  Each one had four faces, and each one had eight wings; and under their wings was the likeness of men's hands.

10:22  And as for the likeness of their faces, these are the same faces which I saw under the glory of the God of Israel by the River Chebar: and they went each straight forward.