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Ezekiel 10:10
10As for their appearance, the four of them looked alike; each was like a wheel intersecting a wheel.
Ezekiel 10:10 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And as for their appearances, they four had one likeness, as if a wheel had been in the midst of a wheel.
- English Standard Version (ESV)And as for their appearance, the four had the same likeness, as if a wheel were within a wheel.
- New King James Version (NKJV)As for their appearance, all four looked alike—as it were, a wheel in the middle of a wheel.
- New Living Translation (NLT)All four wheels looked alike and were made the same; each wheel had a second wheel turning crosswise within it.
Context of Ezekiel 10:10
8(Under the wings of the cherubim could be seen what looked like human hands.) 9I looked, and I saw beside the cherubim four wheels, one beside each of the cherubim; the wheels sparkled like topaz. As for their appearance, the four of them looked alike; each was like a wheel intersecting a wheel. 11As they moved, they would go in any one of the four directions the cherubim faced; the wheels did not turn about as the cherubim went. The cherubim went in whatever direction the head faced, without turning as they went. 12Their entire bodies, including their backs, their hands and their wings, were completely full of eyes, as were their four wheels.
Read all of Ezekiel 10Ezekiel 10:10 word by word
וּמַ֨רְאֵיהֶ֔ם דְּמ֥וּת אֶחָ֖ד לְאַרְבַּעְתָּ֑ם כַּאֲשֶׁ֛ר יִהְיֶ֥ה הָאוֹפַ֖ן בְּת֥וֹךְ הָאוֹפָֽן׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Ezekiel 10:10
- Ezekiel 1:16This was the appearance and structure of the wheels: They sparkled like topaz, and all four looked alike. Each appeared to be made like a wheel intersecting a wheel.
- Psalms 36:6Your righteousness is like the highest mountains, your justice like the great deep. You, Lord, preserve both people and animals.
- Psalms 97:2Clouds and thick darkness surround him; righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne.
- Psalms 104:24How many are your works, Lord! In wisdom you made them all; the earth is full of your creatures.
- Romans 11:33Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable his judgments, and his paths beyond tracing out!
Commentaries on Ezekiel 10:10
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 10A wheel had been in the midst of a wheel - It is difficult to comprehend this description. It is generally supposed to mean one wheel within another, cutting each other at right angles. This, in my opinion, will not account for the motions attributed to these wheels; nor can I see how, on this supposition, they could have any motion; for if one was moved on its axis, the other must be dragged contrary to its axis. I have conjectured it rather to mean a…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 8-22Verses 8-22 Ezekiel sees the working of Divine providence in the government of the lower world, and the affairs of it. When God is leaving a people in displeasure, angels above, and all events below, further his departure. The Spirit of life, the Spirit of God, directs all creatures, in heaven and on earth, so as to make them serve the Divine purpose. God removes by degrees from a provoking people; and, when ready to depart, would return to them, if they…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 3-22The glory of the Lord did not leave the temple all at once. It moved slowly, step by step, almost as if it was unwilling to depart (Ezekiel 10:4). First, the glory of the Lord moved from above the cherubim in the Most Holy Place. Then it went to the entrance of the temple and stopped there for a time. After that, it rose above the cherubim again (Ezekiel 10:18) and moved to the east gate of the courtyard, where it paused once more (10:19). Eventually, the…Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1010. four had one likeness--In the wonderful variety of God's works there is the greatest harmony:-- "In human works, though labored on with pain, One thousand movements scarce one purpose gain; In God's one single doth its end produce, Yet serves to second, too, some other use. (See on Eze 1:16). wheel ... in ... a wheel--cutting one another at fight angles, so that the whole might move in any of the four directions or quarters of the world. God's doings…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Ezekiel 10
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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