KJV King James Version
And the cherubims were lifted up. This [is] the living creature that I saw by the river of Chebar.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Ezekiel 10:15
And the cherubims were lifted up. This [is] the living creature that I saw by the river of Chebar.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Then the cherubim rose upward. These were the living creatures I had seen by the River Kebar.
WEB World English Bible
The cherubim mounted up: this is the living creature that I saw by the river Chebar.
ASV American Standard Version
And the cherubim mounted up: this is the living creature that I saw by the river Chebar.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And the cherubs are lifted up, it is the living creature that I saw by the river Chebar.
Surrounding context — Ezekiel 10
12 And their whole body, and their backs, and their hands, and their wings, and the wheels, [were] full of eyes round about, [even] the wheels that they four had.
13 As for the wheels, it was cried unto them in my hearing, O wheel.
14 And every one had four faces: the first face [was] the face of a cherub, and the second face [was] the face of a man, and the third the face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle.
15 And the cherubims were lifted up. This [is] the living creature that I saw by the river of Chebar.
16 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.
17 When they stood, [these] stood; and when they were lifted up, [these] lifted up themselves [also]: for the spirit of the living creature [was] in them.
18 Then the glory of the LORD departed from off the threshold of the house, and stood over the cherubims.
Cross-references
Ezekiel 1:5Also out of the midst thereof [came] the likeness of four living creatures. And this [was] their appearance; they had the likeness of a man.Ezekiel 1:13-14As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance [was] like burning coals of fire, [and] like the appearance of lamps: it went up and down among the living creatures; and the fire was bright, and out of the fire went forth lightning.Ezekiel 43:3And [it was] according to the appearance of the vision which I saw, [even] according to the vision that I saw when I came to destroy the city: and the visions [were] like the vision that I saw by the river Chebar; and I fell upon my face.Ezekiel 8:6He said furthermore unto me, Son of man, seest thou what they do? [even] the great abominations that the house of Israel committeth here, that I should go far off from my sanctuary? but turn thee yet again, [and] thou shalt see greater abominations.Ezekiel 1:3The word of the LORD came expressly unto Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar; and the hand of the LORD was there upon him.Ezekiel 10:18-20Then the glory of the LORD departed from off the threshold of the house, and stood over the cherubims.Hosea 9:12Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, [that there shall] not [be] a man [left]: yea, woe also to them when I depart from them!Ezekiel 11:22Then did the cherubims lift up their wings, and the wheels beside them; and the glory of the God of Israel [was] over them above.
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