Ezekiel 10:2

God tells the man in linen to take burning coals from among the cherubim and scatter them over the city. It signals the fiery judgment about to fall on Jerusalem.

Cross-references · 16

• Rev 8:5The angel took the censer, and he filled it with the fire of the altar, and threw it on the earth. There followed thunders, sounds, lightnings, and an earthquake.
• Ezek 1:13As 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 10:16When the cherubim went, the wheels went beside them; and when the cherubim lifted up their wings to mount up from the earth, the wheels also didn’t turn from beside them.
• Ps 18:12–13At the brightness before him his thick clouds passed, hailstones and coals of fire.
• Jer 24:8–10“‘As the bad figs, which can’t be eaten, they are so bad,’ surely Yahweh says, ‘So I will give up Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his princes, and the remnant of Jerusalem, who remain in this land, and those who dwell in the land of Egypt.
• Ezek 10:7–13The cherub stretched out his hand from between the cherubim to the fire that was between the cherubim, and took some of it, and put it into the hands of him who was clothed in linen, who took it and went out.
• Isa 6:6–7Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar.
• Isa 30:30Yahweh will cause his glorious voice to be heard, and will show the descent of his arm, with the indignation of his anger, and the flame of a devouring fire, with a blast, storm, and hailstones.
• Exod 9:8–10Yahweh said to Moses and to Aaron, “Take to you handfuls of ashes of the furnace, and let Moses sprinkle it toward the sky in the sight of Pharaoh.
• Ezek 9:2–3Behold, six men came from the way of the upper gate, which lies toward the north, every man with his slaughter weapon in his hand. One man in the middle of them was clothed in linen, with a writer’s inkhorn by his side. They went in, and stood beside the bronze altar.
• Ezek 20:47–48and tell the forest of the South, ‘Hear Yahweh’s word: Thus says the Lord Yahweh, “Behold, I will kindle a fire in you, and it shall devour every green tree in you, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned thereby.
• Ps 140:10Let burning coals fall on them. Let them be thrown into the fire, into miry pits, from where they never rise.
• Ezek 1:15–20Now as I saw the living creatures, behold, one wheel on the earth beside the living creatures, for each of the four faces of it.
• Ezek 24:9–14Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Woe to the bloody city! I also will make the pile great.
• 2 Kgs 25:9He burned Yahweh’s house, the king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, he burned with fire.
• Ezek 9:11Behold, the man clothed in linen, who had the inkhorn by his side, reported the matter, saying, “I have done as you have commanded me.”

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