Bible Cross References
according to the appearance
Ezekiel 1:4-28
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I looked up and saw a windstorm coming from the north. Lightning was flashing from a huge cloud, and the sky around it was glowing. Where the lightning was flashing, something shone like bronze.
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At the center of the storm I saw what looked like four living creatures in human form,
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but each of them had four faces and four wings.
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Their legs were straight, and they had hoofs like those of a bull. They shone like polished bronze.
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In addition to their four faces and four wings, they each had four human hands, one under each wing.
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Two wings of each creature were spread out so that the creatures formed a square, with their wing tips touching. When they moved, they moved as a group without turning their bodies.
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Each living creature had four different faces: a human face in front, a lion's face at the right, a bull's face at the left, and an eagle's face at the back.
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Two wings of each creature were raised so that they touched the tips of the wings of the creatures next to it, and their other two wings were folded against their bodies.
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Each creature faced all four directions, and so the group could go wherever they wished, without having to turn.
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Among the creatures there was something that looked like a blazing torch, constantly moving. The fire would blaze up and shoot out flashes of lightning.
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The creatures themselves darted back and forth with the speed of lightning.
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As I was looking at the four creatures I saw four wheels touching the ground, one beside each of them.
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All four wheels were alike; each one shone like a precious stone, and each had another wheel intersecting it at right angles,
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so that the wheels could move in any of the four directions.
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The rims of the wheels were covered with eyes.
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Whenever the creatures moved, the wheels moved with them, and if the creatures rose up from the earth, so did the wheels.
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The creatures went wherever they wished, and the wheels did exactly what the creatures did, because the creatures controlled them.
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So every time the creatures moved or stopped or rose in the air, the wheels did exactly the same.
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Above the heads of the creatures there was something that looked like a dome made of dazzling crystal.
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There under the dome stood the creatures, each stretching out two wings toward the ones next to it and covering its body with the other two wings.
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I heard the noise their wings made in flight; it sounded like the roar of the sea, like the noise of a huge army, like the voice of Almighty God. When they stopped flying, they folded their wings,
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but there was still a sound coming from above the dome over their heads.
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Above the dome there was something that looked like a throne made of sapphire, and sitting on the throne was a figure that looked like a human being.
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The figure seemed to be shining like bronze in the middle of a fire. It shone all over with a bright light
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that had in it all the colors of the rainbow. This was the dazzling light which shows the presence of the LORD. When I saw this, I fell face downward on the ground. Then I heard a voice
Ezekiel 8:4
There I saw the dazzling light that shows the presence of Israel's God, just as I had seen it when I was by the Chebar River.
Ezekiel 9:3
Then the dazzling light of the presence of the God of Israel rose up from the winged creatures where it had been, and moved to the entrance of the Temple. The LORD called to the man dressed in linen,
Ezekiel 10:1-22
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I looked at the dome over the heads of the living creatures and above them was something that seemed to be a throne made of sapphire.
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God said to the man wearing linen clothes, "Go between the wheels under the creatures and fill your hands with burning coals. Then scatter the coals over the city." I watched him go.
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The creatures were standing to the south of the Temple when he went in, and a cloud filled the inner courtyard.
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The dazzling light of the LORD's presence rose up from the creatures and moved to the entrance of the Temple. Then the cloud filled the Temple, and the courtyard was blazing with the light.
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The noise made by the creatures' wings was heard even in the outer courtyard. It sounded like the voice of Almighty God.
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When the LORD commanded the man wearing linen clothes to take some fire from between the wheels that were under the creatures, the man went in and stood by one of the wheels.
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One of the creatures reached his hand into the fire that was there among them, picked up some coals, and put them in the hands of the man in linen. The man took the coals and left.
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I saw that each creature had what looked like a human hand under each of its wings.
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I also saw that there were four wheels, all alike, one beside each creature. The wheels shone like precious stones, and each one had another wheel which intersected it at right angles.
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When the creatures moved, they could go in any direction without turning. They all moved together in the direction they wanted to go, without having to turn around.
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Their bodies, backs, hands, wings, and wheels were covered with eyes.
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I heard a voice calling out, "Whirling wheels."
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Each creature had four faces. The first was the face of a bull, the second a human face, the third the face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle.
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(They were the same creatures that I had seen by the Chebar River.) When the creatures rose in the air
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and moved, the wheels went with them. Whenever they spread their wings to fly, the wheels still went with them.
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When the creatures stopped, the wheels stopped; and when the creatures flew, the wheels went with them, because the creatures controlled them.
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Then the dazzling light of the LORD's presence left the entrance of the Temple and moved to a place above the creatures.
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They spread their wings and flew up from the earth while I was watching, and the wheels went with them. They paused at the east gate of the Temple, and the dazzling light was over them.
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I recognized them as the same creatures which I had seen beneath the God of Israel at the Chebar River.
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Each of them had four faces, four wings, and what looked like a human hand under each wing.
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Their faces looked exactly like the faces I had seen by the Chebar River. Each creature moved straight ahead.
Ezekiel 11:22
The living creatures began to fly, and the wheels went with them. The dazzling light of the presence of the God of Israel was over them.
Ezekiel 11:23
Then the dazzling light left the city and moved to the mountain east of it.
to destroy the city
Ezekiel 9:1
Then I heard God shout, "Come here, you men who are going to punish the city. Bring your weapons with you."
Ezekiel 9:5
And I heard God say to the other men, "Follow him through the city and kill. Spare no one; have mercy on no one.
Ezekiel 32:18
"Mortal man," he said, "mourn for all the many people of Egypt. Send them down with the other powerful nations to the world of the dead.
Jeremiah 1:10
Today I give you authority over nations and kingdoms to uproot and to pull down, to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant."
Revelation 11:3-6
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I will send my two witnesses dressed in sackcloth, and they will proclaim God's message during those 1, 260 days."
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The two witnesses are the two olive trees and the two lamps that stand before the Lord of the earth.
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If anyone tries to harm them, fire comes out of their mouths and destroys their enemies; and in this way whoever tries to harm them will be killed.
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They have authority to shut up the sky so that there will be no rain during the time they proclaim God's message. They have authority also over the springs of water, to turn them into blood; they have authority also to strike the earth with every kind of plague as often as they wish.
the river
Ezekiel 1:3
There in Babylonia beside the Chebar River, I heard the LORD speak to me, and I felt his power.
Ezekiel 3:23
So I went out into the valley, and there I saw the glory of the LORD, just as I had seen it beside the Chebar River. I fell face downward on the ground,