Verse 5

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

Referenced Verses

  • Ezek 1:24 : 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.
  • Job 40:9 : 9 Do you have an arm as powerful as God’s, and can you thunder with a voice like his?
  • Ps 29:3-9 : 3 The LORD’s shout is heard over the water; the majestic God thunders, the LORD appears over the surging water. 4 The LORD’s shout is powerful, the LORD’s shout is majestic. 5 The LORD’s shout breaks the cedars, the LORD shatters the cedars of Lebanon. 6 He makes Lebanon skip like a calf and Sirion like a young ox. 7 The LORD’s shout strikes with flaming fire. 8 The LORD’s shout shakes the wilderness, the LORD shakes the wilderness of Kadesh. 9 The LORD’s shout bends the large trees and strips the leaves from the forests. Everyone in his temple says,“Majestic!”
  • Ps 68:33 : 33 to the one who rides through the sky from ancient times! Look! He thunders loudly.
  • Ps 77:17 : 17 The clouds poured down rain; the skies thundered. Yes, your arrows flashed about.
  • Exod 19:16 : 16 On the third day in the morning there was thunder and lightning and a dense cloud on the mountain, and the sound of a very loud horn; all the people who were in the camp trembled.
  • Exod 19:19 : 19 When the sound of the horn grew louder and louder, Moses was speaking and God was answering him with a voice.
  • Exod 20:18-19 : 18 All the people were seeing the thundering and the lightning, and heard the sound of the horn, and saw the mountain smoking– and when the people saw it they trembled with fear and kept their distance. 19 They said to Moses,“You speak to us and we will listen, but do not let God speak with us, lest we die.”
  • Deut 4:12-13 : 12 Then the LORD spoke to you from the middle of the fire; you heard speech but you could not see anything– only a voice was heard. 13 And he revealed to you the covenant he has commanded you to keep, the ten commandments, writing them on two stone tablets.
  • 1 Kgs 7:9 : 9 All of these were built with the best stones, chiseled to the right size and cut with a saw on all sides, from the foundation to the edge of the roof and from the outside to the great courtyard.
  • 2 Chr 4:9 : 9 He made the courtyard of the priests and the large enclosure and its doors; he plated their doors with bronze.
  • Job 37:2-5 : 2 Listen carefully to the thunder of his voice, to the rumbling that proceeds from his mouth. 3 Under the whole heaven he lets it go, even his lightning to the far corners of the earth. 4 After that a voice roars; he thunders with an exalted voice, and he does not hold back his lightning bolts when his voice is heard. 5 God thunders with his voice in marvelous ways; he does great things beyond our understanding.
  • Ezek 46:21 : 21 Then he brought me out to the outer court and led me past the four corners of the court, and I noticed that in every corner of the court there was a court.
  • John 12:28-29 : 28 Father, glorify your name.” Then a voice came from heaven,“I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again.” 29 The crowd that stood there and heard the voice said that it had thundered. Others said that an angel had spoken to him.
  • Heb 12:18-19 : 18 For you have not come to something that can be touched, to a burning fire and darkness and gloom and a whirlwind 19 and the blast of a trumpet and a voice uttering words such that those who heard begged to hear no more.
  • Rev 10:3-4 : 3 Then he shouted in a loud voice like a lion roaring, and when he shouted, the seven thunders sounded their voices. 4 When the seven thunders spoke, I was preparing to write, but just then I heard a voice from heaven say,“Seal up what the seven thunders spoke and do not write it down.”