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New King James Version

Ezekiel 10:15

And the cherubim were lifted up. This was the living creature I saw by the River Chebar.

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 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.
THE MESSAGE
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.

Contextual Overview

8 The cherubim appeared to have the form of a man's hand under their wings. 9 And when I looked, there were four wheels by the cherubim, one wheel by one cherub and another wheel by each other cherub; the wheels appeared to have the color of a beryl stone. 10 As for their appearance, all four looked alike--as it were, a wheel in the middle of a wheel. 11 When they went, they went toward any of their four directions; they did not turn aside when they went, but followed in the direction the head was facing. They did not turn aside when they went. 12 And their whole body, with their back, their hands, their wings, and the wheels that the four had, were full of eyes all around. 13 As for the wheels, they were called in my hearing, "Wheel." 14 Each one had four faces: the first face was the face of a cherub, the second face the face of a man, the third the face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle. 15 And the cherubim were lifted up. This was the living creature I saw by the River Chebar. 16 When the cherubim went, the wheels went beside them; and when the cherubim lifted their wings to mount up from the earth, the same wheels also did not turn from beside them. 17 When the cherubim [fn] stood still, the wheels stood still, and when one [fn] was lifted up, the other [fn] lifted itself up, for the spirit of the living creature was in them.

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 were Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.
Genesis 10:3
The sons of Gomer were Ashkenaz, Riphath, 1 Chronicles 1:6">[fn] and Togarmah.
Genesis 10:8
Cush begot Nimrod; he began to be a mighty one on the earth.
Genesis 10:15
Canaan begot Sidon his firstborn, and Heth;
Genesis 10:18
the Arvadite, the Zemarite, and the Hamathite. Afterward the families of the Canaanites were dispersed.
Genesis 10:20
These were the sons of Ham, according to their families, according to their languages, in their lands and in their nations.
Genesis 10:21
And children were born also to Shem, the father of all the children of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder.
Genesis 10:24
Arphaxad begot Salah, Luke 3:35-36).">[fn] and Salah begot Eber.
Genesis 23:3
Then Abraham stood up from before his dead, and spoke to the sons of Heth, saying,
Genesis 49:13
"Zebulun shall dwell by the haven of the sea; He shall become a haven for ships, And his border shall adjoin Sidon.

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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