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Brenton's Septuagint

Ezekiel 10:22

And as for the likeness of their faces, these are the same faces which I saw under the glory of the God of Israel by the river of Chobar: and they went each straight forward.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Chebar;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Throne;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Chebar;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Angel;   Cherub, Cherubim;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Living Creatures;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Cherubim;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Angel;   Cherub;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Babylonish Captivity, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Forward;   Living Creature;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Their faces looked like the same faces I had seen by the Chebar Canal. Each creature went straight ahead.
Hebrew Names Version
As for the likeness of their faces, they were the faces which I saw by the river Kevar, their appearances and themselves; they went every one straight forward.
King James Version
And the likeness of their faces was the same faces which I saw by the river of Chebar, their appearances and themselves: they went every one straight forward.
English Standard Version
And as for the likeness of their faces, they were the same faces whose appearance I had seen by the Chebar canal. Each one of them went straight forward.
New American Standard Bible
As for the likeness of their faces, they were the same faces whose appearance I had seen by the river Chebar. Each one went straight ahead.
New Century Version
Their faces looked the same as the ones I had seen by the Kebar River. They each went straight ahead.
Amplified Bible
As for the likeness of their faces, they were the same faces whose appearance I had seen by the River Chebar. Each one went straight forward.
World English Bible
As for the likeness of their faces, they were the faces which I saw by the river Chebar, their appearances and themselves; they went every one straight forward.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And the likenes of their faces was the selfe same faces, which I sawe by the riuer Chebar, and the appearance of the Cherubims was ye selfe same, and they went euery one straight forwarde.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
As for the likeness of their faces, they were the same faces whose appearance I had seen by the river Chebar. Each one went straight ahead.
Legacy Standard Bible
As for the likeness of their faces, they were the same faces whose appearance I had seen by the river Chebar. Each one went straight ahead.
Berean Standard Bible
Their faces looked like the faces I had seen by the River Kebar. Each creature went straight ahead.
Complete Jewish Bible
As for how their faces looked, they were the faces I had seen by the K'var River, identical in appearance. Each one moved straight ahead.
Darby Translation
And as for the likeness of their faces, they were the faces which I had seen by the river Chebar—their appearance and themselves: they went every one straight before them.
Easy-to-Read Version
The faces of the Cherub angels were the same as the four faces on the living beings in the vision by the Kebar Canal. They all looked straight ahead in the direction they were going.
George Lamsa Translation
And as for the likeness of their faces, they were like the same faces that I saw by the river Chebar, and their appearance was the same; they went every one straight forward.
Good News Translation
Their faces looked exactly like the faces I had seen by the Chebar River. Each creature moved straight ahead.
Lexham English Bible
And the likeness of their faces, they were the faces that I saw at the Kebar River; thus was their appearance, and they each went straight ahead.
Literal Translation
And the form of their faces, they are the faces that I saw by the river Chebar, their appearances, even theirs. They each went straight forward.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Now the figure of their faces was, euen as I had sene them, by the water of Cobar, & so was the countenaunce of the: Euery one in his goinge wente straight forwarde.
American Standard Version
And as for the likeness of their faces, they were the faces which I saw by the river Chebar, their appearances and themselves; they went every one straight forward.
Bible in Basic English
As for the form of their faces, they were the faces whose form I saw by the river Chebar; when they went, every one of them went straight forward.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And as for the likeness of their faces, they were the faces which I saw by the river Chebar, their appearances and themselves; they went every one straight forward.
King James Version (1611)
And the likenesse of their faces was the same faces which I saw by the riuer of Chebar, their appearances and themselues: they went euery one straight forward.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Touchyng the similitude of their countenaunces, they were the very same countenaunces which I sawe at the riuer Chebar, and the selfe same appearaunces: euery one in his goyng went strayght forwarde.
English Revised Version
And as for the likeness of their faces, they were the faces which I saw by the river Chebar, their appearances and themselves; they went every one straight forward.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the licnesse of the cheris of tho weren thilke cheeris whiche Y hadde seyn bisidis the flood Chobar; and the biholdyng of tho, and the fersnesse of ech, was to entre bifor his face.
Update Bible Version
And as for the likeness of their faces, they were the faces which I saw by the river Chebar, their appearances and themselves; they went every one straight forward.
Webster's Bible Translation
And the likeness of their faces [was] the same faces which I saw by the river of Kebar, their appearances and themselves: they went every one straight forward.
New English Translation
As for the form of their faces, they were the faces whose appearance I had seen at the Kebar River. Each one moved straight ahead.
New King James Version
And the likeness of their faces was the same as the faces which I had seen by the River Chebar, their appearance and their persons. They each went straight forward.
New Living Translation
And their faces were just like the faces of the beings I had seen at the Kebar, and they traveled straight ahead, just as the others had.
New Life Bible
Their faces looked the same as those I had seen by the Chebar River. Each one went straight ahead.
New Revised Standard
As for what their faces were like, they were the same faces whose appearance I had seen by the river Chebar. Each one moved straight ahead.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And as for the likeness of their faces, They were the faces which I saw by the river Chebar, their appearances and themselves - every one straight before him, did they go.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And as to the likeness of their faces, they were the same faces which I had seen by the river Chobar, and their looks, and the impulse of every one to go straight forward.
Revised Standard Version
And as for the likeness of their faces, they were the very faces whose appearance I had seen by the river Chebar. They went every one straight forward.
Young's Literal Translation
As to the likeness of their faces, they [are] the faces that I saw by the river Chebar, their appearances and themselves; each straight forward they go.

Contextual Overview

8 And I saw the cherubs having the likeness of men’s hands under their wings. 9 And I saw, and behold, four wheels stood by the cherubs, one wheel by each cherub: and the appearance of the wheels was as the appearance of a carbuncle stone. 10 And as for their appearance, there was one likeness to the four, as if there should be a wheel in the midst of a wheel. 11 When they went, they went on their four sides; they turned not when they went, for whichever way the first head looked, they went; and they turned not as they went. 12 And their backs, and their hands, and their wings, and the wheels, were full of eyes round about the four wheels. 13 And these wheels were called Gelgel in my hearing. 15 And the cherubs were the same living creature which I saw by the river of Chobar. 16 And when the cherubs went, the wheels went, and they were close to them: and when the cherubs lifted up their wings to mount up from the earth, their wheels turned not. 17 When they stood, the wheels stood; and when they mounted up, the wheels mounted up with them: because the spirit of life was in them. 18 Then the glory of the Lord departed from the house, and went up on the cherubs.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the likeness: Ezekiel 1:10

they went: Ezekiel 10:11, Ezekiel 1:12, Hosea 14:9

Reciprocal: Ezekiel 1:6 - And every one had four faces Ezekiel 1:9 - they turned Revelation 4:8 - six

Cross-References

Genesis 9:26
And he said, Blessed be the Lord God of Sem, and Chanaan shall be his bond-servant.
Genesis 10:1
Now these are the generations of the sons of Noe, Sem, Cham, Japheth; and sons were born to them after the flood.
Genesis 10:9
He was a giant hunter before the Lord God; therefore they say, As Nebrod the giant hunter before the Lord.
Genesis 10:17
and the Evite, and the Arukite, and the Asennite,
Genesis 10:27
and Odorrha, and Aibel, and Decla,
Numbers 23:7
And he took up his parable, and said, Balac king of Moab sent for me out of Mesopotamia, out of the mountains of the east, saying, Come, curse me Jacob, and Come, call for a curse for me upon Israel.
2 Kings 15:19
In his days went up Phua king of the Assyrians against the land: and Manaem gave to Phua a thousand talents of silver to aid him with his power.
Job 1:17
While he was yet speaking, there came another messenger, and said to Job, The horsemen formed three companies against us, and surrounded the camels, and took them for a prey, and slew the servants with the sword; and I only escaped, and am come to tell thee.
Isaiah 11:11
And it shall be in that day, that the Lord shall again shew his hand, to be zealous for the remnant that is left of the people, which shall be left by the Assyrians, and that from Egypt, and from the country of Babylon, and from Ethiopia, and from the Elamites, and from the rising of the sun, and out of Arabia.
Isaiah 21:2
so a fearful and a grievous vision was declared to me: he that is treacherous deals treacherously, the transgressor transgresses. The Elamites are upon me, and the ambassadors of the Persians come against me: now will I groan and comfort myself.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the likeness of their faces [was] the same faces,.... Or their faces were like the same,

which I saw by the river of Chebar; which prove that the living creatures and the cherubim must be the same:

their appearance and themselves; were exactly the same there was no difference in their faces or in their bodies:

they went everyone straight forward; their motion as well as their form were alike; they kept one even course, looking right on, and their eyes right before them.


 
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