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Ezekiel 10:15

Then the cherubim ascended. They were the same living creatures I had seen at the Kebar River. When the cherubim moved, the wheels beside them moved. When the cherubim spread their wings to take off from the ground, the wheels stayed right with them. When the cherubim stopped, the wheels stopped. When the cherubim rose, the wheels rose, because the spirit of the living creatures was also in the wheels.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Chebar;   Israel, Prophecies Concerning;   Wheel;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Rivers;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Chebar;   Cherub;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Chebar;   Creature;   River;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Angel;   Chebar;   Cherub, Cherubim;   Ezekiel;   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 - Creature, Living;   Living Creature;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Chebar;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The cherubim ascended; these were the living creatures I had seen by the Chebar Canal.
Hebrew Names Version
The Keruvim mounted up: this is the living creature that I saw by the river Kevar.
King James Version
And the cherubims were lifted up. This is the living creature that I saw by the river of Chebar.
English Standard Version
And the cherubim mounted up. These were the living creatures that I saw by the Chebar canal.
New American Standard Bible
Then the cherubim rose up. They are the living beings that I saw by the river Chebar.
New Century Version
Then the living creatures flew up. They were the same living creatures I had seen by the Kebar River.
Amplified Bible
Then the cherubim rose upward. They are the [same four] living beings [regarded as one] that I saw by the River Chebar [in Babylonia].
World English Bible
The cherubim mounted up: this is the living creature that I saw by the river Chebar.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And the Cherubims were lifted vp: this is the beast that I sawe at the riuer Chebar.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then the cherubim rose up. They are the living beings that I saw by the river Chebar.
Legacy Standard Bible
Then the cherubim rose up. They are the living creatures that I saw by the river Chebar.
Berean Standard Bible
Then the cherubim rose upward. These were the living creatures I had seen by the River Kebar.
Contemporary English Version
These were the same creatures I had seen near the Chebar River. They controlled when and where the wheels moved—the wheels went wherever the creatures went and stopped whenever they stopped. Even when the creatures flew in the air, the wheels stayed beside them.
Complete Jewish Bible
Then the k'ruvim rose. These were the living creatures I had seen by the K'var River.
Darby Translation
And the cherubim mounted up. This was the living creature that I saw by the river Chebar.
George Lamsa Translation
And the cherubim were lifted up. This is the same living creature that I saw by the river Chebar.
Good News Translation
(They were the same creatures that I had seen by the Chebar River.) When the creatures rose in the air
Lexham English Bible
And the cherubim rose; that is, the living creatures that I saw at the Kebar River.
Literal Translation
And the cherubs rose up. This is the living creature that I saw by the river Chebar.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
& they were lifted vp aboue. This is the beest, that I sawe at the water of Cobar.
American Standard Version
And the cherubim mounted up: this is the living creature that I saw by the river Chebar.
Bible in Basic English
And the winged ones went up on high: this is the living being which I saw by the river Chebar.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the cherubim mounted up--this is the living creature that I saw by the river Chebar.
King James Version (1611)
And the Cherubims were lifted vp, this is the liuing creature that I saw by the riuer of Chebar.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the Cherubims were lyfted vp: This is the beast that I sawe at the water of Chebar.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the cherubs were the same living creature which I saw by the river of Chobar.
English Revised Version
And the cherubim mounted up: this is the living creature that I saw by the river Chebar.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and the cherubyns weren reisid. Thilke is the beeste, which Y hadde seyn bisidis the flood Chobar.
Update Bible Version
And the cherubim mounted up: this is the living creature that I saw by the river Chebar.
Webster's Bible Translation
And the cherubim were lifted up. This [is] the living creature that I saw by the river of Kebar.
New English Translation
The cherubim rose up; these were the living beings I saw at the Kebar River.
New King James Version
And the cherubim were lifted up. This was the living creature I saw by the River Chebar.
New Living Translation
Then the cherubim rose upward. These were the same living beings I had seen beside the Kebar River.
New Life Bible
Then the cherubim rose up. They were the living beings that I saw by the Chebar River.
New Revised Standard
The cherubim rose up. These were the living creatures that I saw by the river Chebar.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then arose the cherubim, - the same, was the living one, which I had seen by the river Chebar.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And the cherubims were lifted up: this is the living creature that I had seen by the river Chobar.
Revised Standard Version
And the cherubim mounted up. These were the living creatures that I saw by the river Chebar.
Young's Literal Translation
And the cherubs are lifted up, it [is] the living creature that I saw by the river Chebar.

Contextual Overview

9And then I saw four wheels beside the cherubim, one beside each cherub. The wheels radiating were sparkling like diamonds in the sun. All four wheels looked alike, each like a wheel within a wheel. When they moved, they went in any of the four directions but in a perfectly straight line. Where the cherubim went, the wheels went straight ahead. The cherubim were full of eyes in their backs, hands, and wings. The wheels likewise were full of eyes. I heard the wheels called "wheels within wheels." 14 Each of the cherubim had four faces: the first, of an angel; the second, a human; the third, a lion; the fourth, an eagle. 15Then the cherubim ascended. They were the same living creatures I had seen at the Kebar River. When the cherubim moved, the wheels beside them moved. When the cherubim spread their wings to take off from the ground, the wheels stayed right with them. When the cherubim stopped, the wheels stopped. When the cherubim rose, the wheels rose, because the spirit of the living creatures was also in the wheels. 18Then the Glory of God left the Temple entrance and hovered over the cherubim. I watched as the cherubim spread their wings and left the ground, the wheels right with them. They stopped at the entrance of the east gate of the Temple. The Glory of the God of Israel was above them. 20These were the same living creatures I had seen previously beneath the God of Israel at the Kebar River. I recognized them as cherubim. Each had four faces and four wings. Under their wings were what looked like human hands. Their faces looked exactly like those I had seen at the Kebar River. Each went straight ahead.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

lifted: Ezekiel 10:18, Ezekiel 10:19, Ezekiel 8:6, Ezekiel 11:22, Hosea 9:12

This: Ezekiel 10:20, Ezekiel 1:5, Ezekiel 1:13, Ezekiel 1:14, Ezekiel 43:3

Reciprocal: Ezekiel 3:15 - that dwelt

Cross-References

Genesis 10:2
The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, Tiras.
Genesis 10:3
The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Riphath, Togarmah.
Genesis 10:8
Cush also had Nimrod. He was the first great warrior on Earth. He was a great hunter before God . There was a saying, "Like Nimrod, a great hunter before God ." His kingdom got its start with Babel; then Erech, Akkad, and Calneh in the country of Shinar. From there he went up to Asshur and built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah, and Resen between Nineveh and the great city Calah.
Genesis 10:15
Canaan had Sidon his firstborn, Heth, the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites, the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites, the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites. Later the Canaanites spread out, going from Sidon toward Gerar, as far south as Gaza, and then east all the way over to Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, Zeboiim, and on to Lasha.
Genesis 10:20
These are the descendants of Ham by family, language, country, and nation.
Genesis 10:21
Shem, the older brother of Japheth, also had sons. Shem was ancestor to all the children of Eber.
Genesis 10:24
Arphaxad had Shelah and Shelah had Eber. Eber had two sons, Peleg (so named because in his days the human race divided) and Joktan.
Genesis 23:3
Then Abraham got up from mourning his dead wife and spoke to the Hittites: "I know I'm only an outsider here among you, but sell me a burial plot so that I can bury my dead decently."
Genesis 49:13
Zebulun settles down on the seashore; he's a safe harbor for ships, right alongside Sidon.
1 Chronicles 1:13
Canaan had Sidon (his firstborn) and Heth, and was ancestor to the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites, the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites, the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the cherubim were lifted up,.... From the earth;

:-;

this [is] the living creature that I saw by the river Chebar: a river in Chaldea, where the prophet was when he had the vision of the living creatures recorded in the "first" chapter; and hence it is out of doubt that the living creatures and the cherubim are the same.


 
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