Ezekiel 1:17 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁷When they went, they went upon their four sides: and they turned not when they went.

Ezekiel 1:17 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ezekiel 1:9
Their wings were joined one to another; they turned not when they went; they went every one straight forward.
Ezekiel 1:12
And they went every one straight forward: whither the spirit was to go, they went; and they turned not when they went.
Ezekiel 10:1-11
Then I looked, and, behold, in the firmament that was above the head of the cherubims there appeared over them as it were a sapphire stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a throne. …
Isaiah 55:11
So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.

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Angel (a Spirit)Wheel

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 15-25)

The prophet is very exact in making and recording his observations concerning this vision. And here we have, I. The notice he took of the wheels, Ezek. 1:15-21. The glory of God appears not only in the splendour of his retinue in the upper world, but in the steadiness of his government here in this lower world. Having seen how God does according to his will in the armies of heaven, let us now see…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 17)

17. went upon their four sides--Those faces or sides of the four wheels moved which answered to the direction in which the cherubim desired to move; while the transverse circles in each of the four composite wheels remained suspended from the ground, so as not to impede the movements of the others.