"And the cherubims were lifted up. This {is} the living creature that I saw by the river of Chebar." — Ezekiel 10:15

Ezekiel 10:15 · KJV

“And the cherubims were lifted up. This {is} the living creature that I saw by the river of Chebar.”

— Ezekiel 10:15

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.

Verse 16

And when the cherubims went, the wheels went by them: and when the cherubims lifted up their wings to mount up from the earth, the same wheels also turned not from beside them.

Ezekiel 10 — Context

As for the wheels, it was cried unto them in my hearing, O wheel. {it was...: or, they were called in my hearing, wheel, or, galgal}

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.

And the cherubims were lifted up. This {is} the living creature that I saw by the river of Chebar.

And when the cherubims went, the wheels went by them: and when the cherubims lifted up their wings to mount up from the earth, the same wheels also turned not from beside them.

When they stood, {these} stood; and when they were lifted up, {these} lifted up themselves {also}: for the spirit of the living creature {was} in them. {of...: or, of life}

Cross References

Ezekiel 1:5

Also out of the midst thereof {came} the likeness of four living creatures. And this {was} their appearance; they had the likeness of a man.

Ezekiel 1:13-14

As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance {was} like burning coals of fire, {and} like the appearance of lamps: it went up and down among the living creatures; and the fire was bright, and out of the fire went forth lightning.

Ezekiel 11:22

Then did the cherubims lift up their wings, and the wheels beside them; and the glory of the God of Israel {was} over them above.

Ezekiel 1:3

The word of the LORD came expressly unto Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar; and the hand of the LORD was there upon him. {Ezekiel: Heb. Jehezkel}

Ezekiel 8:6

He said furthermore unto me, Son of man, seest thou what they do? {even} the great abominations that the house of Israel committeth here, that I should go far off from my sanctuary? but turn thee yet again, {and} thou shalt see greater abominations.

Ezekiel 10:18-20

Then the glory of the LORD departed from off the threshold of the house, and stood over the cherubims.

Ezekiel 43:3

And {it was} according to the appearance of the vision which I saw, {even} according to the vision that I saw when I came to destroy the city: and the visions {were} like the vision that I saw by the river Chebar; and I fell upon my face. {when...: or, when I came to prophesy that the city should be destroyed}

Hosea 9:12

Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, {that there shall} not {be} a man {left}: yea, woe also to them when I depart from them!