Ezekiel 10:16

16 And {when the cherubim went}, the wheels beside them went; and {when the cherubim lifted their wings to rise up from the earth}, the wheels also did not turn aside from beside them.

Ezekiel 10:16 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 10:16

And when the cherubim went, the wheels went by them
Ministers being guides to the churches in doctrine, worship, devotion, and conversation; (See Gill on Ezekiel 1:19); and when the cherubim lifted up their wings to mount up from the earth,
the same wheels also turned not from beside them;
ministers and churches go together; if the one remove, the other do also; they cannot long subsist without each other; and, generally speaking, as are the light, knowledge, zeal, affection, and devotion of the one, such are those of the other; (See Gill on Ezekiel 1:19).

Ezekiel 10:16 In-Context

14 And {each one had four faces}; the face of the one [was] the face of a cherub, and the face of the second [was the] face of a human, and the face of the third [was the] face of a lion, and the fourth [was the] face of an eagle.

15 And the cherubim rose; that is, the living creatures that I saw at the {Kebar River}.

16 And {when the cherubim went}, the wheels beside them went; and {when the cherubim lifted their wings to rise up from the earth}, the wheels also did not turn aside from beside them.

17 {When they stood}, they stood, and at their rising, they rose with them, for the spirit of the living creatures [was] in them.

18 And the glory of Yahweh went out from the threshold of the temple, and it stood above the cherubim.

Footnotes

• [a]. Literally "at the going of the cherubim"
• [b]. Literally "and at the lifting of the cherubim wings their to rise from on the earth"