Ezekiel 1:16 KJV — MannaFest

Ezekiel 1:16

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.

KJV

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ASV

The appearance of the wheels and their work was like unto a beryl: and they four had one likeness; and their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel within a wheel.

WEB

The workmanship of the wheels looked like the gleam of beryl, and all four had the same likeness. Their workmanship looked like a wheel within a wheel.

YLT

The appearance of the wheels and their works is as the colour of beryl, and one likeness is to them four, and their appearances and their works are as it were the wheel in the midst of the wheel.

DBT

The appearance of the wheels and their work was as the look of a chrysolite; and they four had one likeness; and their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel.

About this book

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Ezekiel — The exile prophet — priest taken to Babylon in 597 BC, writing to a community still convinced the exile is temporary. Wheels within wheels, the glory departing, dry bones coming to life, and the city whose new name is YHWH Shammah — ‘the LORD is there.’

Author: Ezekiel, son of Buzi the priest (1:3)
Date: Dated oracles 593 BC (1:1, fifth year of Jehoiachin's exile) to 571 BC (29:17)

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Cross-references

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Daniel 10:6
His body also was like the beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as lamps of fire, and his arms and his feet like in colour to polished brass, and the voice of his words like the voice of a multitude.
Ezekiel 10:9–11
And when I looked, behold the four wheels by the cherubims, one wheel by one cherub, and another wheel by another cherub: and the appearance of the wheels was as the colour of a beryl stone.
Ezekiel 10:10
And as for their appearances, they four had one likeness, as if a wheel had been in the midst of a wheel.
1 Kings 7:33
And the work of the wheels was like the work of a chariot wheel: their axletrees, and their naves, and their felloes, and their spokes, were all molten.
Job 9:10
Which doeth great things past finding out; yea, and wonders without number.

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The glory of God appears not only in the splendour of his retinue in the upper world, but in the steadiness of his government here in this lower world.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

); not only they were like one another, but they were as if they had been one. This intimates, (1.) That one event of providence is like another; what happens to us is that which is common to men and what we are not to think strange.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

), the colour of Tarshish (so the word is), that is, of the sea; the beryl is of that colour, sea-green; blue Neptune we call it. The nature of things in this world is like that of the sea, which is in a continual flux and yet there is a constant coherence and succession of its parts.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

It was one of the gems in the breastplate of the high priest (Ex 28:20; Da 10:6). four had one likeness--The similarity of the wheels to one another implies that there is no inequality in all God's works, that all have a beautiful analogy and proportion.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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H86587× in canon H182325× in canon H21235× in canon H4758103× in canon H4639236× in canon H702318× in canon

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Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

EZE 1:16ROM 11:33 JOB 5:9
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
EZE 1:16ROM 11:33 JOB 11:7-9
EZE 1:16JOB 9:10 ROM 11:33
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
EZE 1:16ROM 11:33 PSA 92:5
EZE 1:16ROM 11:33 COL 2:2-3
EZE 1:16ROM 11:33 ROM 2:4
EZE 1:16JOB 9:10 PSA 72:18
EZE 1:16EPH 3:10 1PE 1:12

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