Ezekiel 1:12 KJV — MannaFest

Ezekiel 1:12

And they went every one straight forward: whither the spirit was to go, they went; and they turned not when they went.

KJV

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ASV

And they went every one straight forward: whither the spirit was to go, they went; they turned not when they went.

WEB

Each creature went straight ahead. Wherever the spirit would go, they would go, without turning as they moved.

YLT

And each straight forward they go, whither the spirit is to go, they go, they turn not round in their going.

DBT

And they went every one straight forward: whither the Spirit was to go, they went; they turned not when they went.

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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7 verses on the floor

Ezekiel 1:20
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.
Ezekiel 1:9
Their wings were joined one to another; they turned not when they went; they went every one straight forward.
Ezekiel 1:17
When they went, they went upon their four sides: and they turned not when they went.
Ezekiel 10:22
And the likeness of their faces was the same faces which I saw by the river of Chebar, their appearances and themselves: they went every one straight forward.
Hebrews 1:14
Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?

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Cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC-BY), based on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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Their going straight forward supposes that they looked straight forward, and never had any sinister intentions in what they did. And, if thus our eye be single, our whole body will be full of light. The singleness of the eye is the sincerity of the heart.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Whithersoever the divine Providence was to go they went, to serve its purposes and to execute its orders. The Spirit of God (says Mr. Greenhill) is the great agent that sets angels to work, and it is their honour that they are led, they are easily led, by the Spirit.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

First, They made no blunders or mistakes, which would give them occasion to turn back to rectify them; their work needed no correction, and therefore needed not to be gone over again. Secondly, They minded no diversions; as they turned not back, so they turned not aside, to trifle with any thing that was foreign to their business. [3.] They went whither the Spirit was to go (

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

The same idea as in Eze 1:9. The repetition is because we men are so hard to be brought to acknowledge the wisdom of God's doings; they seem tortuous and confused to us, but they are all tending steadily to one aim. the spirit--the secret impulse whereby God moves His angels to the end designed. They do not turn back or aside till they have fulfilled the office assigned them.

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

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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 1:12HEB 1:14 PSA 34:7
EZE 1:12HEB 1:14 PSA 103:20-21
EZE 1:12HEB 1:14 PSA 91:11-12
EZE 1:12HEB 1:14 MAT 18:10
EZE 1:12HEB 1:14 DAN 6:22
EZE 1:12EZE 10:22 EZE 10:11
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
EZE 1:12EZE 1:17 EZE 1:9
EZE 1:12EZE 1:9 EZE 10:22

The whole web at once: see the Arc.

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