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.
And he spake unto the man clothed with linen, and said, Go in between the wheels,evenunder the cherub, and fill thine hand with coals of fire from between the cherubims, and scatterthemover the city. And he went in in my sight.
Now the cherubims stood on the right side of the house, when the man went in; and the cloud filled the inner court.
Then the glory of theLORDwent up from the cherub,and stoodover the threshold of the house; and the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was full of the brightness of theLORD’sglory.
And the sound of the cherubims’ wings was heardevento the outer court, as the voice of the Almighty God when he speaketh.
And it came to pass,thatwhen he had commanded the man clothed with linen, saying, Take fire from between the wheels, from between the cherubims; then he went in, and stood beside the wheels.
Andonecherub stretched forth his hand from between the cherubims unto the fire thatwasbetween the cherubims, and tookthereof, and putitinto the hands ofhim that wasclothed with linen: who tookit, and went out.
And there appeared in the cherubims the form of a man’s hand under their wings.
And when I looked, behold the four wheels by the cherubims, one wheel by one cherub, and another wheel by another cherub: and the appearance of the wheelswasas the colour of a beryl stone.
Andas fortheir appearances, they four had one likeness, as if a wheel had been in the midst of a wheel.
When they went, they went upon their four sides; they turned not as they went, but to the place whither the head looked they followed it; they turned not as they went.
And their whole body, and their backs, and their hands, and their wings, and the wheels,werefull of eyes round about,eventhe wheels that they four had.
As for the wheels, it was cried unto them in my hearing, O wheel.
And every one had four faces: the first facewasthe face of a cherub, and the second facewasthe face of a man, and the third the face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle.
And the cherubims were lifted up. Thisisthe living creature that I saw by the river of Chebar.
And when the cherubims went, the wheels went by them: and when the cherubims lifted up their wings to mount up from the earth, the same wheels also turned not from beside them.
When they stood,thesestood; and when they were lifted up,theselifted up themselvesalso:for the spirit of the living creaturewasin them.
Then the glory of theLORDdeparted from off the threshold of the house, and stood over the cherubims.
And the cherubims lifted up their wings, and mounted up from the earth in my sight: when they went out, the wheels alsowerebeside them, andevery onestood at the door of the east gate of theLORD’shouse; and the glory of the God of Israelwasover them above.
Thisisthe living creature that I saw under the God of Israel by the river of Chebar; and I knew that theywerethe cherubims.
Every one had four faces apiece, and every one four wings; and the likeness of the hands of a manwasunder their wings.
And the likeness of their faceswasthe same faces which I saw by the river of Chebar, their appearances and themselves: they went every one straight forward.