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Ezekiel 1:17 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" When they went, they went in their four directions. They didn’t turn when they went. "
Ezekiel 1:17
Verse in Context
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15 Now as I saw the living creatures, behold, there was one wheel on the earth beside the living creatures, for each of the four faces of it.
16 The appearance of the wheels and their work was like a beryl. The four of them had one likeness. Their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel within a wheel.
17 When they went, they went in their four directions. They didn’t turn when they went.
18 As for their rims, they were high and dreadful; and the four of them had their rims full of eyes all around.
19 When the living creatures went, the wheels went beside them. When the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up.
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Ezekiel 1:1
"Now in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I was among the captives by the river Chebar, the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God."
Ezekiel 1:2
"In the fifth of the month, which was the fifth year of King Jehoiachin’s captivity,"
Ezekiel 1:3
"the LORD’s word came to Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar; and the LORD’s hand was there on him."
Ezekiel 1:4
"I looked, and behold, a stormy wind came out of the north: a great cloud, with flashing lightning, and a brightness around it, and out of the middle of it as it were glowing metal, out of the middle of the fire."
Ezekiel 1:5
"Out of its center came the likeness of four living creatures. This was their appearance: They had the likeness of a man."
Ezekiel 1:6
"Everyone had four faces, and each one of them had four wings."
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