"When they went, they went upon their four sides: {and} they turned not when they went." — Ezekiel 1:17

Ezekiel 1:17 · KJV

“When they went, they went upon their four sides: {and} they turned not when they went.”

— Ezekiel 1:17

The appearance of the wheels and their work {was} like unto the colour of a beryl: and they four had one likeness: and their appearance and their work {was} as it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel.

Verse 18

As for their rings, they were so high that they were dreadful; and their rings {were} full of eyes round about them four. {and their rings: or, and their strakes}

Ezekiel 1 — Context

Now as I beheld the living creatures, behold one wheel upon the earth by the living creatures, with his four faces.

When they went, they went upon their four sides: {and} they turned not when they went.

As for their rings, they were so high that they were dreadful; and their rings {were} full of eyes round about them four. {and their rings: or, and their strakes}

And when the living creatures went, the wheels went by them: and when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up.

Cross References

Ezekiel 1:9

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

Ezekiel 1:12

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

Ezekiel 10:1-11

Then I looked, and, behold, in the firmament that was above the head of the cherubims there appeared over them as it were a sapphire stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a throne.

Isaiah 55:11

So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper {in the thing} whereto I sent it.