Study Desk

I am Ezekiel—a priest and the son of Buzi. Five years after King Jehoiachin of Judah had been led away as a prisoner to Babylonia, I was living near the Chebar River among those who had been taken there with him. Then on the fifth day of the fourth month of the thirtieth year, the heavens suddenly opened. The Lord placed his hand upon me and showed me some visions.

When I was back with the others living at Abib Hill near the Chebar River, I sat among them for seven days, shocked at what had happened to me.

I immediately went to the valley, where I saw the brightness of the Lord 's glory, just as I had seen near the Chebar River, and I bowed with my face to the ground.

Then I saw the brightness of the glory of the God of Israel, just as I had seen it near the Chebar River.

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.

I knew for sure that these were the same creatures I had seen beneath the Lord 's glory near the Chebar River.

This vision was like the one I had seen when God came to destroy Jerusalem and like the one I had seen near the Chebar River. I immediately bowed with my face to the ground,