Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
Ezekiel 1:8
Or, “They had the hands of a man under their wings on all four sides, just as they had wings and faces on all four sides.”
Or, “They had the hands of a man under their wings on all four sides, just as they had wings and faces on all four sides.”
Verse Ezekiel 1:8. THEY HAD _THE HANDS OF A MAN UNDER THEIR WINGS_] I doubt much whether the arms be not here represented as all covered with feathers, so that they had the appearance of wings, only t...
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...
HANDS. Hebrew text reads "hand". Some codices, with two early printed editions and Hebrew text margin, read "hands "(plural), followed by Authorized Version and Revised Version. The sing. is to be pre...
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...
Each living creature appears to have had four hands or arms, cf. ch. Ezekiel 10:21. The last words of Ezekiel 1:8 must be joined with Ezekiel 1:9: "and their faces and their wings, of them four their...
The four living creatures These are described as having in general the human form; they were erect and had apparently two feet (Ezekiel 1:5_; Ezekiel 1:7_); they had four faces, one looking each way:...
B. The Cherubim 1:5-14 TRANSLATION (5) And from its midst the likeness of four living creatures. And this was their appearance: they possessed the likeness of a man. (6) And each of them had four fac...
And they had the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides; and they four had their faces and their wings. THEY HAD THE HANDS OF A MAN - the hands of each were the hands of a man. The h...
§ 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...
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...
THE HANDS OF A MAN. — Implying, of course, also human arms. This particular adds to the generally human appearance of the cherubim, yet we must understand (see Ezekiel 1:11) that there were four hands...
_וִ_†_ידֵ֣י_† אָדָ֗ם מִ תַּ֨חַת֙ כַּנְפֵיהֶ֔ם עַ֖ל...
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...
Wings. Their arms were covered with feathers, and the hand appeared at the extremity; or they had four arms under the wings, chap. x. 8. They all came from the shoulders, so as to correspond with the...
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...
Now the Prophet says: _hands were under their wings _Since hands are the principal instruments of action, we know that all actions are often denoted by this word: whence hands, either pure or defiled,...
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...
AND [THEY HAD] THE HANDS OF A MAN UNDER THEIR WINGS ON THEIR FOUR SIDES,.... "Hands of a man" denote action, according to knowledge; ministers of the Gospel are men of practice and business, as well a...
And [they had] the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides; and they four had their faces and their wings. Ver. 8. _And they had the hands of a man under their wings._] Faces, wings, han...
_And their feet were straight feet_ Emblematical probably of simplicity and uprightness, or of the steadiness of their obedience. _And the sole of their feet like the sole of a calf's foot_ To signify...
THE FOUR LIVING CREATURES...
And they had the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides, the wings thus being fastened at the shoulders, WHENCE THE HANDS PROCEEDED LIKEWISE; AND THEY FOUR HAD THEIR FACES AND THEIR WING...
1-14 It is a mercy to have the word of God brought to us, and a duty to attend to it diligently, when we are in affliction. The voice of God came in the fulness of light and power, by the Holy Spirit...
THEY; each of the four living creatures. HAD THE HANDS: hands in every language, especially in the Oriental, imply power; and being the chief instruments of action, are here ascribed to these active i...
Ezekiel 1:8 hands H3027 man H120 wings H3671 four H702 sides H7253 four H702 faces H6440 wings H3671...
‘And out of the midst of it came the likeness of four living creatures. And this was their appearance. They had the likeness of a man. And every one had four faces, and every one of them had four wing...
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...
_The hands of a man under their wings._ SUPPRESSION OF SELF We are to do God’s works without noise or notice of ourselves. Angels, that are agents for God, have their hands under their wings; their a...
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 10:18; Ezekiel 10:2; Ezekiel 10:21; Ezekiel 10:7; Ezekiel 10:8
Under — Their power and manner of exerting it is secret and invisible. Sides — On each side of the chariot one of these living creatures flood, and so on each side hands were ready to act as they were...
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...