The cherubim mounted up: this is the living creature that I saw by the river Chebar.
Parallel translations
- KJV And the cherubims were lifted up. This is the living creature that I saw by the river of Chebar.
- BSB Then the cherubim rose upward. These were the living creatures I had seen by the River Kebar.
- NKJV And the cherubim were lifted up. This was the living creature I saw by the River Chebar.
- NASB Then the cherubim rose up. They are the living beings that I saw by the river Chebar.
- NLT Then the cherubim rose upward. These were the same living beings I had seen beside the Kebar River.
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Cross-references · 8
- Ezek 1:5Out of its center came the likeness of four living creatures. This was their appearance: they had the likeness of a man.
- Ezek 1:3Yahweh’s word came expressly to Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar; and Yahweh’s hand was there on him.
- Hos 9:12Though they bring up their children, yet I will bereave them, so that not a man shall be left. Indeed, woe also to them when I depart from them!
- Ezek 8:6He said to me, “Son of man, do you see what they do? Even the great abominations that the house of Israel commit here, that I should go far off from my sanctuary? But you will again see yet other great abominations.”
- Ezek 10:18–20Yahweh’s glory went out from over the threshold of the house, and stood over the cherubim.
- Ezek 43:3It was according to the appearance of the vision which I saw, even according to the vision that I saw when I came to destroy the city; and the visions were like the vision that I saw by the river Chebar; and I fell on my face.
- Ezek 1:13–14As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, like the appearance of torches: the fire went up and down among the living creatures; and the fire was bright, and lightning went out of the fire.
- Ezek 11:22Then the cherubim lifted up their wings, and the wheels were beside them; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them above.
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