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Ezekiel 1:15-28

15 As I looked at the living creatures, I saw a wheel on the ground beside each creature with its four faces.

16 This was the appearance and structure of the wheels: They sparkled like chrysolite, and all four looked alike. Each appeared to be made like a wheel intersecting a wheel.

17 As they moved, they would go in any one of the four directions the creatures faced; the wheels did not turn about as the creatures went.

18 Their rims were high and awesome, and all four rims were full of eyes all around.

19 When the living creatures moved, the wheels beside them moved; and when the living creatures rose from the ground, the wheels also rose.

20 Wherever the spirit would go, they would go, and the wheels would rise along with them, because the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels.

21 When the creatures moved, they also moved; when the creatures stood still, they also stood still; and when the creatures rose from the ground, the wheels rose along with them, because the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels.

22 Spread out above the heads of the living creatures was what looked like an expanse, sparkling like ice, and awesome.

23 Under the expanse their wings were stretched out one toward the other, and each had two wings covering its body.

24 When the creatures moved, I heard the sound of their wings, like the roar of rushing waters, like the voice of the Almighty, like the tumult of an army. When they stood still, they lowered their wings.

25 Then there came a voice from above the expanse over their heads as they stood with lowered wings.

26 Above the expanse over their heads was what looked like a throne of sapphire, and high above on the throne was a figure like that of a man.

27 I saw that from what appeared to be his waist up he looked like glowing metal, as if full of fire, and that from there down he looked like fire; and brilliant light surrounded him.

28 Like the appearance of a rainbow in the clouds on a rainy day, so was the radiance around him.
This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord. When I saw it, I fell facedown, and I heard the voice of one speaking.

Cross References for Ezekiel 1:15-28

Ezekiel 10:9 - I looked, and I saw beside the cherubim four wheels, one beside each of the cherubim; the wheel... Click to read the verse Ezekiel 10:9 Click to read the verse Ezekiel 10:9

Ezekiel 3:13 - the sound of the wings of the living creatures brushing against each other and the sound of the... Click to read the verse Ezekiel 3:13 Click to read the verse Ezekiel 3:13

Revelation 4:7 - The first living creature was like a lion, the second was like an ox, the third had a face like... Click to read the verse Revelation 4:7 Click to read the verse Revelation 4:7

Daniel 7:9 - “As I looked, “thrones were set in place, and the Ancient of Days took his seat. His clothing w... Click to read the verse Daniel 7:9 Click to read the verse Daniel 7:9

Ezekiel 1:6 - but each of them had four faces and four wings. Click to read the verse Ezekiel 1:6 Click to read the verse Ezekiel 1:6

Ezekiel 10:13-17 - I heard the wheels being called “the whirling wheels.” Click to read the verse Ezekiel 10:13-17 Click to read the verse Ezekiel 10:13-17

Ezekiel 1:19-21 - When the living creatures moved, the wheels beside them moved; and when the living creatures ro... Click to read the verse Ezekiel 1:19-21 Click to read the verse Ezekiel 1:19-21