Ezekiel 10:1

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God’s Glory Leaves the Temple As I watched, I saw on the platform above the top of the cherubim something like a sapphire, resembling the shape of a throne, appearing above them.

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  • Exod 24:10 : 10 and they saw the God of Israel. Under his feet there was something like a pavement made of sapphire, clear like the sky itself.
  • Rev 4:2-3 : 2 Immediately I was in the Spirit, and a throne was standing in heaven with someone seated on it! 3 And the one seated on it was like jasper and carnelian in appearance, and a rainbow looking like it was made of emerald encircled the throne.
  • Gen 18:2 : 2 Abraham looked up and saw three men standing across from him. When he saw them he ran from the entrance of the tent to meet them and bowed low to the ground.
  • Gen 18:17 : 17 Then the LORD said,“Should I hide from Abraham what I am about to do?
  • Gen 18:22 : 22 The two men turned and headed toward Sodom, but Abraham was still standing before the LORD.
  • Gen 18:31 : 31 Abraham said,“Since I have undertaken to speak to the Lord, what if only twenty are found there?” He replied,“I will not destroy it for the sake of the twenty.”
  • Gen 32:24 : 24 So Jacob was left alone. Then a man wrestled with him until daybreak.
  • Gen 32:30 : 30 So Jacob named the place Peniel, explaining,“Certainly I have seen God face to face and have survived.”
  • Josh 5:13-15 : 13 Israel Conquers Jericho When Joshua was near Jericho, he looked up and saw a man standing in front of him holding a drawn sword. Joshua approached him and asked him,“Are you on our side or allied with our enemies?” 14 He answered,“Truly I am the commander of the LORD’s army. Now I have arrived!” Joshua bowed down with his face to the ground and asked,“What does my master want to say to his servant?” 15 The commander of the LORD’s army answered Joshua,“Remove your sandals from your feet, because the place where you stand is holy.” Joshua did so.
  • Josh 6:2 : 2 The LORD told Joshua,“See, I am about to defeat Jericho for you, along with its king and its warriors.
  • Ps 18:10 : 10 He mounted a winged angel and flew; he glided on the wings of the wind.
  • Ps 68:17-18 : 17 God has countless chariots; they number in the thousands. The Lord comes from Sinai in holy splendor. 18 You ascend on high, you have taken many captives. You receive tribute from men, including even sinful rebels. Indeed the LORD God lives there!
  • Isa 21:8-9 : 8 Then the guard cries out:“On the watchtower, O Lord, I stand all day long; at my post I am stationed every night. 9 Look what’s coming! A charioteer, a team of horses.” When questioned, he replies,“Babylon has fallen, fallen! All the idols of her gods lie shattered on the ground!”
  • Jer 13:6 : 6 Many days later the LORD said to me,“Go at once to Perath and get the shorts I ordered you to bury there.”
  • Jer 13:8 : 8 Then the LORD’s message came to me,
  • Jer 13:18-22 : 18 The LORD told me,“Tell the king and the queen mother,‘Surrender your thrones, for your glorious crowns will be removed from your heads. 19 The gates of the towns in southern Judah will be shut tight. No one will be able to go in or out of them. All Judah will be carried off into exile. They will be completely carried off into exile.’” 20 Then I said,“Look up, Jerusalem, and see the enemy that is coming from the north. Where now is the flock of people that were entrusted to your care? Where now are the‘sheep’ that you take such pride in? 21 What will you say when the LORD appoints as rulers over you those allies that you, yourself, had actually prepared as such? Then anguish and agony will grip you like that of a woman giving birth to a baby. 22 You will probably ask yourself,‘Why have these things happened to me? Why have I been treated like a disgraced adulteress whose skirt has been torn off and her limbs exposed?’ It is because you have sinned so much.
  • Ezek 1:22-26 : 22 Over the heads of the living beings was something like a platform, glittering awesomely like ice, stretched out over their heads. 23 Under the platform their wings were stretched out, each toward the other. Each of the beings also had two wings covering its body. 24 When they moved, I heard the sound of their wings– it was like the sound of rushing waters, or the voice of the Sovereign One, or the tumult of an army. When they stood still, they lowered their wings. 25 Then there was a voice from above the platform over their heads when they stood still. 26 Above the platform over their heads was something like a sapphire shaped like a throne. High above on the throne was a form that appeared to be a man.
  • Ezek 10:20 : 20 These were the living creatures which I saw at the Kebar River underneath the God of Israel; I knew that they were cherubim.
  • Ezek 11:22 : 22 Then the cherubim spread their wings with their wheels alongside them while the glory of the God of Israel hovered above them.
  • Hab 2:1 : 1 I will stand at my watch post; I will remain stationed on the city wall. I will keep watching, so I can see what he says to me and can know how I should answer when he counters my argument.
  • John 1:18 : 18 No one has ever seen God. The only one, himself God, who is in closest fellowship with the Father, has made God known.
  • Eph 1:20 : 20 This power he exercised in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly realms
  • 1 Pet 3:22 : 22 who went into heaven and is at the right hand of God with angels and authorities and powers subject to him.
  • Rev 1:13 : 13 and in the midst of the lampstands was one like a son of man. He was dressed in a robe extending down to his feet and he wore a wide golden belt around his chest.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ezek 1:25-28
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    25Then there was a voice from above the platform over their heads when they stood still.

    26Above the platform over their heads was something like a sapphire shaped like a throne. High above on the throne was a form that appeared to be a man.

    27I saw an amber glow like a fire enclosed all around from his waist up. From his waist down I saw something that looked like fire. There was a brilliant light around it,

    28like the appearance of a rainbow in the clouds after the rain. This was the appearance of the surrounding brilliant light; it looked like the glory of the LORD. When I saw it, I threw myself face down, and I heard a voice speaking.

  • Ezek 10:2-10
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    2The LORD said to the man dressed in linen,“Go between the wheelwork underneath the cherubim. Fill your hands with burning coals from among the cherubim and scatter them over the city.” He went as I watched.

    3(The cherubim were standing on the south side of the temple when the man went in, and a cloud filled the inner court.)

    4Then the glory of the LORD arose from the cherub and moved to the threshold of the temple. The temple was filled with the cloud while the court was filled with the brightness of the LORD’s glory.

    5The sound of the wings of the cherubim could be heard from the outer court, like the sound of the Sovereign God when he speaks.

    6When the LORD commanded the man dressed in linen,“Take fire from within the wheelwork, from among the cherubim,” the man went in and stood by one of the wheels.

    7Then one of the cherubim stretched out his hand toward the fire which was among the cherubim. He took some and put it into the hands of the man dressed in linen, who took it and left.

    8(The cherubim appeared to have the form of human hands under their wings.)

    9As I watched, I noticed four wheels by the cherubim, one wheel beside each cherub; the wheels gleamed like jasper.

    10As for their appearance, all four of them looked the same, something like a wheel within a wheel.

  • Ezek 1:21-22
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    21When the living beings moved, the wheels moved, and when they stopped moving, the wheels stopped. When they rose up from the ground, the wheels rose up from the ground; the wheels rose up beside them because the spirit of the living being was in the wheel.

    22Over the heads of the living beings was something like a platform, glittering awesomely like ice, stretched out over their heads.

  • Ezek 10:12-20
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    12along with their entire bodies, their backs, their hands, and their wings. The wheels of the four of them were full of eyes all around.

    13As for their wheels, they were called“the wheelwork” as I listened.

    14Each of the cherubim had four faces: The first was the face of a cherub, the second that of a man, the third that of a lion, and the fourth that of an eagle.

    15The cherubim rose up; these were the living beings I saw at the Kebar River.

    16When the cherubim moved, the wheels moved beside them; when the cherubim spread their wings to rise from the ground, the wheels did not move from their side.

    17When the cherubim stood still, the wheels stood still, and when they rose up, the wheels rose up with them, for the spirit of the living beings was in the wheels.

    18Then the glory of the LORD moved away from the threshold of the temple and stopped above the cherubim.

    19The cherubim spread their wings, and they rose up from the earth while I watched(when they went the wheels went alongside them). They stopped at the entrance to the east gate of the LORD’s temple as the glory of the God of Israel hovered above them.

    20These were the living creatures which I saw at the Kebar River underneath the God of Israel; I knew that they were cherubim.

  • Rev 4:2-3
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    2Immediately I was in the Spirit, and a throne was standing in heaven with someone seated on it!

    3And the one seated on it was like jasper and carnelian in appearance, and a rainbow looking like it was made of emerald encircled the throne.

  • Ezek 11:22
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    22Then the cherubim spread their wings with their wheels alongside them while the glory of the God of Israel hovered above them.

  • Ezek 8:2
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    2As I watched, I noticed a form that appeared to be a man. From his waist downward was something like fire, and from his waist upward something like a brightness, like an amber glow.

  • Ezek 1:4-5
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    4As I watched, I noticed a windstorm coming from the north– an enormous cloud, with lightning flashing, such that bright light rimmed it and came from it like glowing amber from the middle of a fire.

    5In the fire were what looked like four living beings. In their appearance they had human form,

  • Ezek 1:15-16
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    15Then I looked, and I saw one wheel on the ground beside each of the four beings.

    16The appearance of the wheels and their construction was like gleaming jasper, and all four wheels looked alike. Their structure was like a wheel within a wheel.

  • Exod 24:10
    76%

    10and they saw the God of Israel. Under his feet there was something like a pavement made of sapphire, clear like the sky itself.

  • Dan 10:5
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    5I looked up and saw a man clothed in linen; around his waist was a belt made of gold from Ufaz.

  • Ezek 8:4
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    4Then I perceived that the glory of the God of Israel was there, as in the vision I had seen earlier in the valley.

  • Rev 4:6
    75%

    6and in front of the throne was something like a sea of glass, like crystal. In the middle of the throne and around the throne were four living creatures full of eyes in front and in back.

  • Rev 10:1
    75%

    1The Angel with the Little Scroll Then I saw another powerful angel descending from heaven, wrapped in a cloud, with a rainbow above his head; his face was like the sun and his legs were like pillars of fire.

  • Ezek 1:13
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    13In the middle of the living beings was something like burning coals of fire or like torches. It moved back and forth among the living beings. It was bright, and lightning was flashing out of the fire.

  • Exod 37:9
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    9The cherubim were spreading their wings upward, overshadowing the atonement lid with their wings. The cherubim faced each other, looking toward the atonement lid.

  • Ezek 9:3
    74%

    3Then the glory of the God of Israel went up from the cherub where it had rested to the threshold of the temple. He called to the man dressed in linen who had the writing kit at his side.

  • Exod 25:20
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    20The cherubim are to be spreading their wings upward, overshadowing the atonement lid with their wings, and the cherubim are to face each other, looking toward the atonement lid.

  • 2 Sam 22:11
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    11He mounted a winged angel and flew; he glided on the wings of the wind.

  • Dan 7:9
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    9“While I was watching, thrones were set up, and the Ancient of Days took his seat. His attire was white like snow; the hair of his head was like lamb’s wool. His throne was ablaze with fire and its wheels were all aflame.

  • Ezek 1:19
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    19When the living beings moved, the wheels beside them moved; when the living beings rose up from the ground, the wheels rose up too.

  • Ezek 28:14
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    14I placed you there with an anointed guardian cherub; you were on the holy mountain of God; you walked about amidst fiery stones.

  • Ezek 1:10
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    10Their faces had this appearance: Each of the four had the face of a man, with the face of a lion on the right, the face of an ox on the left and also the face of an eagle.

  • 2 Chr 3:13
    72%

    13The combined wingspan of these cherubim was 30 feet. They stood upright, facing inward.

  • 2 Chr 3:10
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    10In the most holy place he made two images of cherubim and plated them with gold.