What does Ezekiel 1:18 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"As for their rings, they were so high that they were dreadful; and their ringsf were full of eyes round about them four."
Verse Ezekiel 1:18. _AS FOR THEIR RINGS_] The _strakes_ which form the _rim_ or _periphery_. _THEY WERE DREADFUL_] They were exceedingly great in their diameter, so that it was tremendous to look fro...
RINGS - The felloes (circumference) of the wheels: they were both high and terrible. The “eyes” may have been no more than dazzling spots adding to their brilliancy. But it seems more likely that they...
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 c...
HIGH. In the sense of sublimity....
The theophany, or, vision of God This is described first generally, as a whirlwind and great cloud coming from the North, with a luminous splendour around it, due to a fire sending out continuous fla...
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...
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...
As for their rings, they were so high that they were dreadful; and their rings were full of eyes round about them four. THEIR RINGS - i:e., felloes, or circumferences of the wheels. WERE FULL OF...
§ 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 (Ezekie...
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...
THEIR RINGS. — The same word is used twice in this verse, and means what we call the _felloes._ “They were both high and terrible,” _i.e.,_ they had both these characteristics, but not, as seems to be...
וְ גַ֨בֵּיהֶ֔ן וְ גֹ֥בַהּ לָהֶ֖ם וְ יִרְאָ֣ה לָהֶ֑ם וְ גַבֹּתָ֗ם מְלֵאֹ֥ת עֵינַ֛יִם סָבִ֖יב לְ...
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 becam...
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...
_Eyes, like Argus, or the tail of a peacock. (Calmet) --- The eye is sometimes put for a colour. (Grotius)_...
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 says about the circumferences of the wheels may seem superfluous, but he refers to the second clause of the verse, where he says, that these circumferences were full of eyes. Here, then, he no...
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...
AS FOR THEIR RINGS, THEY WERE SO HIGH, THAT THEY WERE DREADFUL,.... The circles and circumferences of them were "high": which may denote the visibility and extensiveness of the churches of Christ, esp...
As for their rings, they were so high that they were dreadful; and their rings [were] full of eyes round about them four. Ver. 18. _As for their rings they were so high._] _Apsides earum tam amplae s...
_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....
RINGS: Or, strakes...
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....
THEIR RINGS; the circumference of the wheels, the whole compass of the wheels, or the fellows (as a carter calls the whole roundle of his wheels). THEY WERE SO HIGH; the two strakes, the thickness of...
Ezekiel 1:18 rims H1354 high H1363 awesome H3374 rims H1354 full H4392 eyes H5869 around H5439 four H702 they were so - Job 37:22-24; Psalms 77:16-19, Psalms 97:2-5; Isaiah 55:9 rings - or, stakes f...
‘As for their rims (‘rings') they were high and frightening, and they four had their rims full of eyes round about.' This may suggest the huge size of the wheels as it sped on, ‘high and frightening'....
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...
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 10:12; Isaiah 55:9; Job 37:22; Proverbs 15:3; Psalms 77:16; Psalms 97:2; Revelation 4:6; Revelation 4:8; Zechariah 4:10...
The rings — The circumference of the wheels. Dreadful — Their very height imprest a fear on the beholder. Them four — Every one of the four wheels. How fitly do the wheels, their motion, their height,...
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...