Chapter 1

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in the thirtieth Num 4:3; Luke 3:23

as I Eccl 9:1-2; Jer 24:5-7

captives Heb. captivity

by the river Ezek 1:3, Ezek 3:15, Ezek 3:23, Ezek 10:15, Ezek 10:20, Ezek 10:22, Ezek 43:3

Chebar Chebar, called now Khabour, is a river of Mesopotamia, which taking its rise in the Mysian mountains, falls into the Euphrates near Carchemish, or Circesioum, now Karkisia, about 35 degrees 20 minutes n lat. and 40 degrees 25 minutes e long.

the heavens Matt 3:16; Luke 3:21; John 1:51; Acts 7:56, Acts 10:11; Rev 4:1, Rev 19:11

I saw Ezek 8:3, Ezek 11:24; Gen 15:1, Gen 46:2; Num 12:6; Isa 1:1; Dan 8:1-2; Hos 12:10; Joel 2:28; Matt 17:9; Acts 9:10-12, Acts 10:3; 2Cor 12:1


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Ezek 8:1, Ezek 20:1, Ezek 29:1, Ezek 29:17, Ezek 31:1, Ezek 40:1; 2Kgs 24:12-15


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word Jer 1:2, Jer 1:4; Hos 1:1; Joel 1:1; 1Tim 4:1

Ezekiel Heb. Jehezkel

and the Ezek 3:14, Ezek 3:22, Ezek 8:1, Ezek 33:22, Ezek 37:1, Ezek 40:1; 1Kgs 18:46; 2Kgs 3:15


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a whirlwind Isa 21:1; Jer 1:13-14, Jer 4:6, Jer 6:1, Jer 23:19, Jer 25:9, Jer 25:32; Hab 1:8-9

a great Ezek 10:2-4; Exod 19:16-18, Exod 24:16-17; Deut 4:11-12; 2Chr 5:13-14, 2Chr 6:1, 2Chr 7:1-3; Ps 18:11-13, Ps 50:3, Ps 97:2-3, Ps 104:3-4; Isa 19:1; Nah 1:3-6; Hab 3:3-5; Heb 12:29

infolding itself Heb. catching itself

colour Ezek 1:27, Ezek 8:2, Ezek 10:8-9; Rev 1:15


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the likeness Rev 4:6, Rev 6:6 *Gr.


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And every one had four faces These living creatures were probably hieroglyphical representations of the holy angels, the attendants on "the King of Glory," and the ministers of his providence. They were four, apparently to denote that they were employed in the four corners of the world; and they had the likeness of a man, to signify that they were intelligent and rational creatures. Ezek 1:10, Ezek 1:15, Ezek 10:10, Ezek 10:14, Ezek 10:21-22; Rev 4:7-8

every one had four wings Ezek 1:8-11; Exod 25:20; 1Kgs 6:24-27; Isa 6:2


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straight feet Heb. a straight foot

like the sole Lev 11:3, Lev 11:47

the colour Ezek 1:13; Ps 104:4; Dan 10:6; Rev 1:15


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Ezek 8:3, Ezek 10:2, Ezek 10:7-8, Ezek 10:18, Ezek 10:21; Isa 6:6


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joined Ezek 1:11; 2Chr 3:11-12; 1Cor 1:10

they turned Ezek 1:12, Ezek 10:11, Ezek 10:22; Prov 4:25-27; Luke 9:51, Luke 9:62


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for the Ezek 10:14; Rev 4:7

the face of a man Num 2:10; Isa 46:8; Luke 15:10; 1Cor 14:20

the face of a lion Num 2:3; Judg 14:18; 1Chr 12:8; Rev 5:5

the face of an ox Ezek 10:14, Cherub, Num 2:18; Prov 14:4; 1Cor 9:9-10

the face of an eagle Num 2:25; Deut 28:49; Job 39:27; Isa 40:31; Dan 7:4


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and their Ezek 10:16, Ezek 10:19

stretched upward or, divided above

and two Ezek 1:23; Isa 6:2


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they went every Ezek 1:9, Ezek 1:17, Ezek 10:22

whither Ezek 1:20-21; Heb 1:14


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Ezek 1:7; Gen 15:17; Ps 104:4; Dan 10:5-6; Matt 28:3; Rev 4:5, Rev 10:1, Rev 18:1


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Ps 147:15; Dan 9:21; Zech 2:3-4, Zech 4:10; Matt 24:27, Matt 24:31; Mark 13:27


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one Ezek 1:19-21, Ezek 10:9, Ezek 10:13-17; Dan 7:9

with Ezek 1:6; Rev 4:7


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the colour Ezek 10:9; Exod 39:13; Dan 10:6

a wheel Ezek 10:10; Job 9:10; Ps 36:6, Ps 40:5; Rom 11:33; Eph 3:10


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and Ezek 1:9, Ezek 1:12, 10:1-11:25; Isa 55:11


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they were so Job 37:22-24; Ps 77:16-19, Ps 97:2-5; Isa 55:9

rings or, stakes

full Ezek 10:12; Prov 15:3; Zech 4:10; Rev 4:6, Rev 4:8


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Ezek 10:16; Ps 103:20


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the spirit Ezek 1:12; 1Cor 14:32

for the Ezek 10:17; Zech 6:1-8

of the living creature or, of life


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When those went Ezek 1:19-20, Ezek 10:17

of the living creature or, of life, Rom 8:2


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the likeness Ezek 1:26, Ezek 10:1; Exod 24:10; Job 37:22; Rev 4:3, Rev 4:6, Rev 21:11

crystal The Hebrew kerach which generally denotes ice, doubtless here signifies crystal (κρυσταλλος, from κρυος, cold, ice, and στελλομαι, to concrete), as it is rendered by the LXX and Vulgate. It is a very large class of silicious minerals, hard, pellucid, naturally colourless, of regularly angular figures, and of simple plates; not flexible, nor elastic, but giving fire with steel; not fermenting by acid menstrua, but calcinable in a strong fire. There are three orders of pure crystal. The first is perfect columnar crystals, with double pyramids, of eighteen planes, in an hexangular pyramid at each end; the second is that of perfect crystals, without a column, of twelve or sixteen planes, in two hexangular pyramids; and the third is that of imperfect crystals, with single pyramids, of ten or twelve planes, in an hexangular or pentangular column. Terrible crystal seems to denote that which was well cut and polished, vividly refracting the rays of light.


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their wings Ezek 1:12, Ezek 1:24

which Ezek 1:11; Job 4:18; Ps 89:7; Luke 17:10


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like Ezek 43:2; Rev 1:15, Rev 19:6

as the voice Ezek 10:5; Job 37:2, Job 37:4-5; Ps 18:13, Ps 29:3-9, Ps 68:33

as the noise Dan 10:6; 2Kgs 7:6


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and had Ezek 1:24


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And above Abp. Newcome judiciously observes, "We need not allegorize the circumstances of this august vision too minutely. Many of them augment the splendour of the scene, while others, no doubt, have much significance; which should be pointed out rather by a correct judgment, than a luxuriant imagination." Ezek 1:22, Ezek 10:1

over Matt 28:18; Eph 1:21-22; Phil 2:9-10; 1Pet 3:22

the likeness of a Ps 45:6; Isa 6:1; Dan 7:9-10, Dan 7:14; Zech 6:13; Matt 25:13; Heb 1:8, Heb 8:1; Heb 12:2; Rev 4:2-3, Rev 5:13, Rev 20:11

as the Exod 24:10; Isa 54:11

the appearance of a man Gen 32:24-30; Josh 5:13-15, Josh 6:1-2; Isa 9:6-7; Jer 23:5-6; Dan 10:18; Rev 1:13, Rev 3:21, Rev 14:14


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as the colour Ezek 1:4, Ezek 8:2

the appearance of fire Deut 4:24; Ps 50:3, Ps 97:2; 2Thess 1:8; Heb 12:29; Rev 1:14-16


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at the appearance of the bow Gen 9:13-16; Isa 54:8-10; Rev 4:3, Rev 10:1

This Ezek 8:4, Ezek 10:19-20, Ezek 43:3; Exod 16:7, Exod 16:10, Exod 24:16, Exod 33:18-23; Num 12:6-8; 1Kgs 8:10-11; 1Cor 13:12

I fell Ezek 3:23; Gen 17:3; Lev 9:24; Dan 8:17, Dan 10:7-9, Dan 10:16-17; Matt 17:5-6; Acts 9:4; Rev 1:17-18


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