"As for their rings, they were so high that they were dreadful; and their rings {were} full of eyes round about them four…" — Ezekiel 1:18

Ezekiel 1:18 · KJV

“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 1:18

Verse 17

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

Verse 19

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.

Ezekiel 1 — Context

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.

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.

Whithersoever the spirit was to go, they went, thither {was their} spirit to go; and the wheels were lifted up over against them: for the spirit of the living creature {was} in the wheels. {of...: or, of life}

Cross References

Ezekiel 10:12

And their whole body, and their backs, and their hands, and their wings, and the wheels, {were} full of eyes round about, {even} the wheels that they four had. {body: Heb. flesh}

Revelation 4:6

And before the throne {there was} a sea of glass like unto crystal: and in the midst of the throne, and round about the throne, {were} four beasts full of eyes before and behind.

Revelation 4:8

And the four beasts had each of them six wings about {him}; and {they were} full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come. {rest...: Gr. have no rest}

Proverbs 15:3

The eyes of the LORD {are} in every place, beholding the evil and the good.

Isaiah 55:9

For {as} the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.

Job 37:22-24

Fair weather cometh out of the north: with God {is} terrible majesty. {Fair...: Heb. Gold}

Psalms 77:16-19

The waters saw thee, O God, the waters saw thee; they were afraid: the depths also were troubled.

Zechariah 4:10

For who hath despised the day of small things? for they shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel {with} those seven; they {are} the eyes of the LORD, which run to and fro through the whole earth. {for they...: or, since the seven eyes of the LORD shall rejoice} {plummet: Heb. stone of tin}