Ezekiel 10:4-14

4 Then the ¹glory of the LORD went up from the cherub to the threshold of the temple, and the ²temple was filled with the cloud and the court was filled with the ³brightness of the glory of the LORD.

5 Moreover, the sound of the wings of the cherubim was heard as far as the outer court, like the ⁴voice of God Almighty when He speaks.

6 It came about when He commanded the man clothed in linen, saying, "Take fire from between the whirling wheels, from between the cherubim," he entered and stood beside a wheel.

7 Then the cherub stretched out his hand from between the cherubim to the fire which was between the cherubim, took some and put it into the hands of the one clothed in linen, who took it and went out.

8 The cherubim appeared to have the form of a man's hand under their wings.

9 Then I looked, and behold, ⁵four wheels beside the cherubim, one wheel beside each cherub; and the appearance of the wheels was like the gleam of a ⁶Tarshish stone.

10 As for their appearance, all four of them had the same likeness, as if one wheel were within another wheel.

11 When they moved, they went ⁷in any of their four directions without turning as they went; but they followed * in the direction which they faced *, without turning as they went.

12 Their ⁸whole body, their backs, their hands, their wings and the ⁹wheels were full of eyes all around, the wheels belonging to all four of them.

13 The wheels were called in my hearing, the whirling wheels.

14 And ¹⁰each one had four faces. The first face was the face of a cherub, the second face was the face of a man, the third the face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle.

Ezekiel 10:4-14 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO EZEKIEL 10

In this chapter is a vision, very much like that in the first chapter, with some difference, and with a different view, the design of it being to represent the wrath of God against Jerusalem, and his departure from the city and temple. A throne much like that in Eze 1:26 is described, Eze 10:1; orders are given from it to scatter coals over the city, Eze 10:2; the situation of the cherubim when these orders were given, Eze 10:3; the removal of the glory of the Lord from the cherub to the threshold of the house, and the consequences of it; the house filled with smoke; the court with the brightness of the Lord's glory; and the sound of the cherubim's wings heard to the outer court, as the voice of God, Eze 10:4,5; the orders of taking and scattering fire over the city executed, and the manner in which they were, Eze 10:6,7; a description of the cherubim and the wheels, much like that in the first chapter, Eze 10:8-17; the departure of the glory of God from the threshold to the east gate of the Lord's house, with the motion of the cherubim and wheels along with him, Eze 10:18,19; and the chapter is concluded with observing, that the cherubim are the same with the living creatures seen in the vision of the first chapter, and had the same form, likeness, and motion, Eze 10:20-22.

Cross References

• 1. Ezekiel 9:3; Ezekiel 11:22, 23
• 2. Exodus 40:34, 35; Isaiah 6:1-4
• 3. Ezekiel 1:28
• 4. Job 40:9; Ezekiel 1:24; Revelation 10:3
• 5. Ezekiel 1:15-17
• 6. Daniel 10:6; Revelation 21:20
• 7. Ezekiel 1:17
• 8. Revelation 4:6, 8
• 9. Ezekiel 1:18
• 10. 1 Kings 7:29, 36; Ezekiel 1:6, 10; Ezekiel 10:21; Revelation 4:7

Footnotes

• [a]. Heb "El Shaddai"
• [b]. Perhaps, "beryl"
• [c]. Lit "sides"
• [d]. Lit "the head turned"