Ezekiel 10

The Command to Scatter Coals Ezekiel 10:3–4

³Verse 3. Now the cherubim stood on the right side of the house, when the man went in; and the cloud filled the inner court. ⁴Verse 4. Yahweh’s glory mounted 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 Yahweh’s glory.

The Movement of the Cherubim Ezekiel 10:5–7

⁵Verse 5. The sound of the wings of the cherubim was heard even to the outer court, as the voice of God Almighty when he speaks. ⁶Verse 6. It came to pass, when he commanded the man clothed in linen, saying, “Take fire from between the whirling wheels, from between the cherubim,” that he went in, and stood beside a wheel. ⁷Verse 7. The cherub stretched out his hand from between the cherubim to the fire that was between the cherubim, and took some of it, and put it into the hands of him who was clothed in linen, who took it and went out.

Description of the Cherubim and Wheels Ezekiel 10:8–12

⁸Verse 8. The form of a man’s hand appeared here in the cherubim under their wings. ⁹Verse 9. I looked, and behold, there were four wheels beside the cherubim, one wheel beside one cherub, and another wheel beside another cherub. The appearance of the wheels was like a beryl stone. ¹⁰Verse 10. As for their appearance, the four of them had one likeness, like a wheel within a wheel. ¹¹Verse 11. When they went, they went in their four directions. They didn’t turn as they went, but to the place where the head looked they followed it. They didn’t turn as they went. ¹²Verse 12. Their whole body, including their backs, their hands, their wings, and the wheels, were full of eyes all around, even the wheels that the four of them had.

The Departure of God's Glory Ezekiel 10:13–19

¹³Verse 13. As for the wheels, they were called in my hearing, “the whirling wheels”. ¹⁴Verse 14. Every one them had four faces. The first face was the face of the cherub. The second face was the face of a man. The third face was the face of a lion. The fourth was the face of an eagle. ¹⁵Verse 15. The cherubim mounted up. This is the living creature that I saw by the river Chebar. ¹⁶Verse 16. 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 didn’t turn from beside them.

¹⁷Verse 17. When they stood, these stood. When they mounted up, these mounted up with them; for the spirit of the living creature was in them. ¹⁸Verse 18. Yahweh’s glory went out from over the threshold of the house, and stood over the cherubim. ¹⁹Verse 19. The cherubim lifted up their wings, and mounted up from the earth in my sight when they went out, with the wheels beside them. Then they stood at the door of the east gate of Yahweh’s house; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them above.

Recognition of the Cherubim Ezekiel 10:20–22

²⁰Verse 20. This is the living creature that I saw under the God of Israel by the river Chebar; and I knew that they were cherubim. ²¹Verse 21. Every one had four faces, and every one four wings. The likeness of the hands of a man was under their wings. ²²Verse 22. As for the likeness of their faces, they were the faces which I saw by the river Chebar, their appearances and themselves. They each went straight forward.