KJV King James Version
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.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Ezekiel 10:17
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.
Read it in 5 translations
BSB Berean Standard Bible
When the cherubim stood still, the wheels also stood still, and when they ascended, the wheels ascended with them, for the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels.
WEB World English Bible
When they stood, these stood; and when they mounted up, these mounted up with them: for the spirit of the living creature was in them.
ASV American Standard Version
When they stood, these stood; and when they mounted up, these mounted up with them: for the spirit of the living creature was in them.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
In their standing they stand, and in their exaltation they are exalted with them: for the living spirit is in them.
Surrounding context — Ezekiel 10
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.
19 And the cherubims lifted up their wings, and mounted up from the earth in my sight: when they went out, the wheels also [were] beside them, and [every one] stood at the door of the east gate of the LORD’S house; and the glory of the God of Israel [was] over them above.
20 This [is] the living creature that I saw under the God of Israel by the river of Chebar; and I knew that they [were] the cherubims.
Cross-references
Ezekiel 1:20-21Whithersoever 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.Romans 8:2For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.Ezekiel 1:12And they went every one straight forward: whither the spirit was to go, they went; [and] they turned not when they went.Genesis 2:7And the LORD God formed man [of] the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.Revelation 11:11And after three days and an half the Spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell upon them which saw them.
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