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Wednesday, June 18th, 2025
the Week of Proper 6 / Ordinary 11
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Green's Literal Translation

Ezekiel 1:17

They went on the four of their sides in their going, they did not turn in their going.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Angel (a Spirit);   Wheel;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Beasts;   Cherub;   Ezekiel;   Vision;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Cherubim;   Ezekiel;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Angel;   Cherub, Cherubim;   Ezekiel;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Isaiah, Book of;   Seraphim;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Living Creatures;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Cherub;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Side;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Babylonish Captivity, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Cherubim (1);   Living Creature;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Cabala;   Cherub;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
When they moved, they went in any of the four directions, without turning as they moved.
Hebrew Names Version
When they went, they went in their four directions: they didn't turn when they went.
King James Version
When they went, they went upon their four sides: and they turned not when they went.
English Standard Version
When they went, they went in any of their four directions without turning as they went.
New American Standard Bible
Whenever they moved, they moved in any of their four directions without turning as they moved.
New Century Version
When they moved, they went in any one of the four directions, without turning as they went.
Amplified Bible
Whenever they moved, they went in any [one] of their four directions without turning as they moved.
World English Bible
When they went, they went in their four directions: they didn't turn when they went.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Whe they went, they went vpo their foure sides, and they returned not when they went.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Whenever they moved, they moved in any of their four directions without turning as they moved.
Legacy Standard Bible
Whenever they went, they went in any of their four directions without turning as they went.
Berean Standard Bible
As they moved, they went in any of the four directions, without pivoting as they moved.
Contemporary English Version
so that they could move in any direction without turning.
Complete Jewish Bible
When they moved, they could go in any of the four directions without turning as they moved.
Darby Translation
When they went, they went upon their four sides; they turned not when they went.
Easy-to-Read Version
They could turn to move in any direction. But the living beings did not turn when they moved.
George Lamsa Translation
When they went, they went upon four sides; and they turned not when they went; and wherever the first one turned to go, the other went after it, and turned not.
Good News Translation
so that the wheels could move in any of the four directions.
Lexham English Bible
When they moved, they went toward their four sides; they did not veer at all as they went.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
When one wente forwarde, they wente all foure, and turned the not aboute i their goinge.
American Standard Version
When they went, they went in their four directions: they turned not when they went.
Bible in Basic English
The four of them went straight forward without turning to one side.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
When they went, they went toward their four sides; they turned not when they went.
King James Version (1611)
When they went, they went vpon their foure sides: and they returned not when they went.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
When they went, they went vpon their foure sides: they returned not backe when they went.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
They went on their four sides: they turned not as they went;
English Revised Version
When they went, they went upon their four sides: they turned not when they went.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Tho goynge yeden bi foure partis of tho, and turneden not ayen, whanne tho yeden.
Update Bible Version
When they went, they went in their four directions: they did not turn when they went.
Webster's Bible Translation
When they went, they went upon their four sides: [and] they returned not when they went.
New English Translation
When they moved they would go in any of the four directions they faced without turning as they moved.
New King James Version
When they moved, they went toward any one of four directions; they did not turn aside when they went.
New Living Translation
The beings could move in any of the four directions they faced, without turning as they moved.
New Life Bible
When they moved, they went in one of their four ways, without turning as they went.
New Revised Standard
When they moved, they moved in any of the four directions without veering as they moved.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Upon their four sides, when they went, so did they go, - they turned not when they went.
Douay-Rheims Bible
When they went, they went by their four parts: and they turned not when they went.
Revised Standard Version
When they went, they went in any of their four directions without turning as they went.
Young's Literal Translation
On their four sides, in their going they go, they turn not round in their going.
THE MESSAGE
They went in any one of the four directions they faced, but straight, not veering off. The rims were immense, circled with eyes. When the living creatures went, the wheels went; when the living creatures lifted off, the wheels lifted off. Wherever the spirit went, they went, the wheels sticking right with them, for the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels. When the creatures went, the wheels went; when the creatures stopped, the wheels stopped; when the creatures lifted off, the wheels lifted off, because the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels.

Contextual Overview

15 And I looked at the living creatures, and, behold, one wheel was on the earth beside the living creatures, with the four of its faces. 16 The appearance of the wheels and their workmanship was like the color of beryl; and the one likeness was to the four of them. And their appearance and their workmanship was like the wheel in the middle of the wheel. 17 They went on the four of their sides in their going, they did not turn in their going. 18 And also their rims were high to them, even awesome to them. And their rims were full of eyes all around the four of them. 19 And in the going of the living creatures the wheels went beside them. And in the lifting up of the living creatures from on the earth, the wheels were lifted up. 20 There where the spirit was to go, there they went; there their spirit was to go, and the wheels were lifted up along with them. For the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels. 21 In their going, these went; and in their standing still, these stood still. And in their being lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up along with them. For the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels. 22 And a likeness was over the heads of the living creature, an expanse like the color of awesome crystal, stretched out over their heads from above. 23 And under the expanse their wings were straight, the one toward the other, to each, two wings covering on this side , and to each two covering on that side of their bodies. 24 And I heard the sound of their wings like the sound of great waters, like the voice of the Almighty. In their going was the sound of tumult, like the sound of an army. In their standing still, they let down their wings.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

and: Ezekiel 1:9, Ezekiel 1:12, Ezekiel 10:1 - Ezekiel 11:25, Isaiah 55:11

Reciprocal: Ezekiel 10:11 - they went upon Ezekiel 10:19 - the cherubims Ezekiel 46:9 - he that entereth in

Cross-References

Genesis 9:13
I have set My bow in the cloud, and it shall be a sign of a covenant between Me and the earth.
Job 38:12
Have you commanded the morning from your days, and caused the dawn to know its place,
Psalms 8:1
To the chief musician, on the harp. A Psalm of David. O Jehovah, our Lord, how majestic is Your name in all the earth; You have set Your glory above the heavens!
Psalms 8:3
When I look upon Your heavens, the work of Your fingers: the moon and the stars which You have fixed;
Acts 13:47
For so the Lord has commanded us, "I have set You for a Light of nations, that You be for salvation to the end of the earth." Isa. 49:6

Gill's Notes on the Bible

When they went, they went upon their four sides,.... On either of their crossing rings, as they were directed by the living creatures, at whose side they stood:

[and] they returned not when they went; they had no need to turn about when they were to go east, west, north, or south, as wheels usually do; but they turned upon the crossing ring, which was towards either of the four points. This denotes the perseverance of the churches, and the true members thereof, in faith and practice; they do not turn back, nor look back, but go right on, walking in the fear of the Lord, and in all his, ways and ordinances.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Upon their four sides - i. e. straight in the direction toward which their faces looked. Since the four quarters express all directions, the construction of the living creatures was such that they could move in each direction alike.


 
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