they turned not when they went Of course they ran round on their axle, but each wheel was of such a kind that it had a rim facing all four directions, and could run in any direction. Ontheir four sides should rather be, toward.
UPON THEIR FOUR SIDES - i. e. straight in the direction toward which their faces looked. Since the four quarters express all directions, the construction of the living creatures was such that they cou...
ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS I. PREDICTIONS BEFORE THE FALL OF JERUSALEM A. judgment Predictions Concerning Jerusalem (1-24) Chapter S 1:1-3:14 The Vision of Glory and the Call of the Prophet _ 1. The...
EZEKIEL 1-3. EZEKIEL ENTERS UPON HIS MINISTRY. Ezekiel 1:1. Ezekiel's Vision. Ezekiel 1:1. Like the prophets generally, Ezekiel enters upon his ministry only after he has had a vision of God and a ca...
TURNED. The 1611 edition of the Authorized Version reads "returned"....
BEHOLD ONE WHEEL UPON THE EARTH— The prophet now proceeds to describe the wheels of this chariot borne by the living creatures. "Now, as I _contemplated_ these living creatures (says he) _there appear...
RETURNED NOT— _Turned not._...
C. The Wheels 1:15-21 TRANSLATION (15) Now as I saw the living creatures, behold one wheel on the earth beside each of the living creatures on its four sides. (16) The appearance of the wheels and th...
When they went, they went upon their four sides: and they turned not when they went. THEY WENT UPON THEIR FOUR SIDES. Those faces or sides of the four wheels moved which answered to the direction...
1:17 upon (c-6) Or 'toward.'...
§ 1. EZEKIEL'S CALL AND CONSECRATION AS A PROPHET (EZEKIEL 1-3) Date, June-July, 592 b.c. Ezekiel's call and consecration to his prophetic work took place by means of a vision of God's glory (Ezekiel...
THEY TURNED NOT WHEN THEY WENT] as in Ezekiel 1:9; Ezekiel 1:12. The wheels of course revolved, but, like the living creatures, they could move in different directions without changing front....
EZEKIEL: ‘THEY SHALL KNOW THAT I AM GOD’ THE *SIN OF JUDAH AND THE JUDGEMENT OF GOD EZEKIEL CHAPTER S 1 TO 24 _IAN MACKERVOY_ ABOUT THIS BOOK 1. HISTORY After the death of King Solomon, the *I...
UPON THEIR FOUR SIDES — _i.e._, forwards or backwards upon the one wheel, and to the right or the left upon the other. _Four_ directions are considered throughout the vision as representing all direct...
עַל ־אַרְבַּ֥עַת רִבְעֵיהֶ֖ן בְּ לֶכְתָּ֣ם יֵלֵ֑כוּ...
THE VISION OF THE GLORY OF GOD Ezekiel 1:1 IT might be hazardous to attempt, from the general considerations advanced in the last two Chapter s, to form a conception of Ezekiel's state of mind during...
A VISION OF GOD'S MAJESTY Ezekiel 1:1-21 A dark storm-cloud approaches the prophet, from which an incessant blaze of lightning scintillated. As it drew near, the forms of four living creatures became...
The Book opens with the account of the prophet's preparation, and falls into two sections, the first describing the visions he saw, and the second the voice he heard. Verses Eze 1:2-3 in this chapter...
_Parts. When they went, they went by their four parts. That is, indifferently to any of their sides, either forward or backward, to the right or to the left. (Challoner) --- Their motion was connected...
It is worthy the Reader's closest attention, how often during this account the appearance of a man is spoken of. Was it, (for I only ask the question, and do not presume to decide), to lead the Prophe...
What he had already explained he now repeats for the sake of confirmation, _that they went upon their four sides _— that is, each living creature proceeded straight forward; the words _they turned not...
In chapter 1 we find a date which refers to the year of Josiah's passover, but with what intent I do not know. It has been thought that the thirty years relate to the jubilee. On this point I cannot s...
WHEN THEY WENT, THEY WENT UPON THEIR FOUR SIDES,.... On either of their crossing rings, as they were directed by the living creatures, at whose side they stood: [AND] THEY RETURNED NOT WHEN THEY WENT...
When they went, they went upon their four sides: [and] they turned not when they went. Ver. 17. _When they went, they went upon their four sides._] Or, According to their four sides - _i.e., _ throug...
_When they went_ Namely, the wheels; _they went upon their four sides_ The wheels being supposed spherical as a globe, by an exact framing of two wheels one in the other, the four semicircles, which w...
The Four-Faced Wheels and the Four Creatures....
When they went, they went upon their four sides, they could go in four directions, due to that double construction; AND THEY TURNED NOT WHEN THEY WENT, just like the four creatures....
15-25 Providence, represented by the wheels, produces changes. Sometimes one spoke of the wheel is uppermost, sometimes another; but the motion of the wheel on its own axletree is regular and steady....
WHEN THEY WENT; the living creatures; indeed the wheels moved according to the motion of the living creatures, but it will as well agree with the truth, as it better agrees with the grammar of the wor...
Ezekiel 1:17 moved H3212 (H8800) went H3212 (H8799) four H702 directions H7253 turn H5437 (H8735) went...
‘Now as I beheld the living creatures, behold one wheel upon earth beside the living creatures, for each of their four faces. The appearance of the wheels and their work was like the colour of topaz,...
CONTENTS: Vision of the glory. CHARACTERS: God, Holy Spirit, Christ, Ezekiel, Jehoiachin, (Ezekiel 1:26). CONCLUSION: While no man has seen God at any time, many have had visions of Him, displays of...
Ezekiel 1:1. _In the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, and fifth day of the month._ The Jews were accustomed to reckon time from great and auspicious events, as the call of Abraham, the exodus from...
_And they turned not when they went._ CONCENTRATED LIVES It is a grand thing to see a man thoroughly possessed with one master passion. Such a man is sure to be strong, and if the master principle be...
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 1:1 Inaugural Vision. The story of Ezekiel’s call as a prophet is the most complex of all the “prophetic call stories” in the OT. It is also one of the most carefully structure...
2. THE VIEW GIVEN TO EZEKIEL OF “THE LIKENESS OF THE GLORY OF THE LORD” (Chap. Ezekiel 1:4) EXEGETICAL NOTES.— Ezekiel 1:4. THE STORM-CLOUD. “A WHIRLWIND,” a tempest such as Job perceived (Ezekiel 38:...
EXPOSITION For the life of the prophet prior to the vision which this chapter relates, and which constituted his call to that office, see Introduction. EZEKIEL 1:1 NOW; literally, _and. _The use of...
Ezekiel 1:4. _And I looked, and behold a whirlwind coming from the north, a great cloud, and a fire kindling itself, and a brightness round about it (the cloud), and from out of it (the fire) like the...
Shall we turn at this time to the prophecy of Ezekiel. Ezekiel said, It came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in the fifth day of the month (Ezekiel 1:1), So that would be July th...
Ezekiel 1:12; Ezekiel 1:9; Ezekiel 11:25; Isaiah 55:11...
They — The wheels. Four sides — The wheels being supposed round every way as a globe, by an exact framing of two wheels one in the other; the four semi — circles which are in two whole wheels, may be...
Is this a manifestation of UFOs and extraterrestrial intelligence? PROBLEM: Ezekiel speaks here of “living creatures” whose faces were in “the likeness of a man” which moved “like a flash of lightnin...