"As for the likeness of their faces, they four had the face of a man, and the face of a lion, on the right side: and they…" — Ezekiel 1:10

Ezekiel 1:10 · KJV

“As for the likeness of their faces, they four had the face of a man, and the face of a lion, on the right side: and they four had the face of an ox on the left side; they four also had the face of an eagle.”

— Ezekiel 1:10

Verse 9

Their wings {were} joined one to another; they turned not when they went; they went every one straight forward.

Verse 11

Thus {were} their faces: and their wings {were} stretched upward; two {wings} of every one {were} joined one to another, and two covered their bodies. {stretched...: or, divided above}

Ezekiel 1 — Context

And {they had} the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides; and they four had their faces and their wings.

Their wings {were} joined one to another; they turned not when they went; they went every one straight forward.

As for the likeness of their faces, they four had the face of a man, and the face of a lion, on the right side: and they four had the face of an ox on the left side; they four also had the face of an eagle.

Thus {were} their faces: and their wings {were} stretched upward; two {wings} of every one {were} joined one to another, and two covered their bodies. {stretched...: or, divided above}

And they went every one straight forward: whither the spirit was to go, they went; {and} they turned not when they went.

Cross References

Ezekiel 10:14

And every one had four faces: the first face {was} the face of a cherub, and the second face {was} the face of a man, and the third the face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle.

Revelation 4:7

And the first beast {was} like a lion, and the second beast like a calf, and the third beast had a face as a man, and the fourth beast {was} like a flying eagle.

1 Corinthians 9:9-10

For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen?

1 Chronicles 12:8

And of the Gadites there separated themselves unto David into the hold to the wilderness men of might, {and} men of war {fit} for the battle, that could handle shield and buckler, whose faces {were like} the faces of lions, and {were} as swift as the roes upon the mountains; {of war: Heb. of the host} {as swift...: Heb. as the roes upon the mountains to make haste}

Numbers 2:18

On the west side {shall be} the standard of the camp of Ephraim according to their armies: and the captain of the sons of Ephraim {shall be} Elishama the son of Ammihud.

Proverbs 14:4

Where no oxen {are}, the crib {is} clean: but much increase {is} by the strength of the ox.

Judges 14:18

And the men of the city said unto him on the seventh day before the sun went down, What {is} sweeter than honey? and what {is} stronger than a lion? And he said unto them, If ye had not plowed with my heifer, ye had not found out my riddle.

Deuteronomy 28:49

The LORD shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, {as swift} as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand; {understand: Heb. hear}