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Ezekiel 10:16

in Ezekiel 10

When the cherubim moved, the wheels moved beside them, and even when they spread their wings to rise from the ground, the wheels did not veer away from their side.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And when the cherubim went, the wheels went beside them; and when the cherubim lifted up their wings to mount up from the earth, the wheels also turned not from beside them.

KJV

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.

This verse in Ezekiel 10

Commentary

8 notes on this verse

A commentator

Jerome

Commentary on Ezekiel · Written before 420.

(Vers. 15 seqq.) It is a creature that I saw beside the river Chobar. And when the Cherubim walked, the wheels also went beside them. And when the Cherubim lifted their wings to be lifted up from the ground, the wheels did not resist, but were also beside them. When they stood, they stood, and when they were lifted up, they were lifted up. For the spirit of life was in them. All things live to God and feel their Creator. For God is not the God of the dead but of the living (Matthew 22:32).

This site's exposition

four faces

on Ezekiel 10:14-17

Each cherub has four faces, “that of a cherub,” the set of Ezekiel 1:10 except that the ox is here named the cherub. The wheels rise and stand with the cherubim, “for the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels.” Wheel and creature obey one spirit.

This site's exposition

the wheels moved beside them

The wheels move with the cherubim and stay at their side as the cherubim spread their wings and lift off. Albert Barnes reads every part as moved by one will, so that the whole acts as one living thing. They rise from the ground together.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

4 Then the glory of the L ORD went up from the cherub, and stood over the threshold of the house; and the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was full of the brightness of the L ORD 's glory. 5 And the sound of the cherubims' wings was heard even to the outer court, as the voice of the Almighty God when he speaketh.

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A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

), and yet in one thing there seems to be a material difference, that that which was there was the face of an ox, and was on the left side ( ch. i. 10 ), is here the face of a cherub, and is the first face (

quarantine:debris (2026-07-29) — leading-punctuation

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 Eze 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 Eze 1:19.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

are a repetition of the general description of the nature and connection of the various parts of the vision, and this is the more appropriate as showing why they were regarded as “one living creature” Eze 10:15. The attributes here assigned to them show that they were pervaded by one will - “the spirit of the living creature” (others, as in the margin, “the spirit of life”) “was in them.”

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

Eze 1:19). lifted up . . . wings--to depart, following "the glory of the Lord" which was on the point of departing (Eze 10:18).

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The words behind it

18 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וּבְלֶ֙כֶת֙and when moved

    uvelekhetH1980 →1546 times

  • הַכְּרוּבִ֔יםthe cherubim

    hakeruvimH3742 →91 times

  • יֵלְכ֥וּthey moved

    yelekhuH1980 →1546 times

  • הָאוֹפַנִּ֖יםthe wheels

    haofanimH212 →35 times

  • אֶצְלָ֑םbeside them

    ʾetzlamH681 →61 times

  • וּבִשְׂאֵ֨תand when lifted up

    uvisetH5375 →656 times

  • הַכְּרוּבִ֜יםthe cherubim

    hakeruvimH3742 →91 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • כַּנְפֵיהֶ֗םwings their

    kanfeihemH3671 →109 times

  • לָרוּם֙to rise

    larumH7311 →190 times

  • מֵעַ֣לfrom on

    mealH5921 →5755 times

  • הָאָ֔רֶץthe earth

    haaretzH776 →2504 times

  • לֹא־not

    lo'-H3808 →5168 times

  • יִסַּ֧בּוּthey turned

    yisabuH5437 →161 times

  • הָאוֹפַנִּ֛יםthe wheels

    haofanimH212 →35 times

  • גַּם־also

    gam-H1571 →769 times

  • הֵ֖םthey

    hemH1992 →553 times

  • מֵאֶצְלָֽם׃from beside them

    meetzlamH681 →61 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Where this verse is studied

About Ezekiel

Ezekiel’s Vision of the Valley of Dry Bones, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Ezekiel’s Vision of the Valley of Dry Bones, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Carl Friedrich Keil, Biblical Commentary on the Prophecies of Ezekiel; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jerome, Commentary on Ezekiel; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.