Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Ezekiel 1:9
Their wings [were] (g) joined one to another; they turned not when they went; they went every one straight forward.
(g) The wing of the one touched the wing of the other.
Their wings [were] (g) joined one to another; they turned not when they went; they went every one straight forward.
(g) The wing of the one touched the wing of the other.
Verse Ezekiel 1:9. _THEIR WINGS_ WERE _JOINED ONE TO ANOTHER_] When their wings were extended, they formed a sort of canopy level with their own heads or shoulders; and on this canopy was the throne,...
Two of the wings were in the act of flying, so stretched out that the extremity of each touched a wing of a neighboring living creature, similarly stretched out. This was only when they were in motion...
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...
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...
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:...
——JOINED ONE TO ANOTHER— Of the two in front, and of the two behind, the right wing of one reached to the left wing of the other; the extremities of the expanded inner wings forming an arch. _THEY TUR...
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...
Their wings were joined one to another; they turned not when they went; they went every one straight forward. THEY TURNED NOT WHEN THEY WENT. They had no occasion to turn themselves round when chan...
§ 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...
THEIR WINGS WERE JOINED ONE TO ANOTHER. — _i.e.,_ the outstretched right wing of one cherub was joined at its tip to the left wing of another, so that although four, they yet constituted in some sense...
חֹֽבְרֹ֛ת אִשָּׁ֥ה אֶל ־אֲחֹותָ֖הּ כַּנְפֵיהֶ֑ם לֹא...
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...
Another. Two above were extended so as to support the throne, which seemed to rest on these eight wings connected together. The others were joined so as perfectly to cover what was below the breast. ...
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...
He says _the wings were conjoined, _which he soon more clearly explains: for he will say that the wings were joined together, and that two were so extended that they clothed or ruled the whole body: b...
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...
THEIR WINGS [WERE] JOINED ONE TO ANOTHER,.... "A woman to her sister" n, in the Hebrew; denoting the concord, harmony, and agreement of Gospel ministers, and their affection to one another; they preac...
Their wings [were] joined one to another; they turned not when they went; they went every one straight forward. Ver. 9. _Their wings were joined one to another._] To show the unity of angels, the uni...
_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...
Their wings were joined one to another, connected or interlaced with one another. THEY TURNED NOT WHEN THEY WENT, namely, in twisted maneuvers; THEY WENT EVERY ONE STRAIGHT FORWARD, due to the fact th...
THE FOUR LIVING CREATURES...
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...
THEIR WINGS WERE JOINED ONE TO ANOTHER; the wings of the living creatures, when stretched out to fly, were joined together; so the wings of those two cherubims which went foremost, and the wings of th...
Ezekiel 1:9 wings H3671 touched H2266 (H8802) one H802 another H269 turn H5437 (H8735) went H3212 ...
‘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...
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 1:9 THEIR WINGS TOUCHED recalls the description of the cherubim in the Most Holy Place in Solomon’s temple (1 Kings 6:27). The four-sided form of the cre
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...
1 Corinthians 1:10; 2 Chronicles 3:11; 2 Chronicles 3:12; Ezekiel 1:11;...
Their wings — The wings of the two cherubim which went foremost, and the wings of the two hindermost, were joined together when they moved. Went — This explains the former words, assuring us, that eve...
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...