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Ezekiel 1:14

God's holiness

12 Each creature went straight ahead. Wherever the spirit would go, they would go, without turning as they moved.

13 In the midst of the living creatures was the appearance of glowing coals of fire, or of torches. Fire moved back and forth between the living creatures; it was bright, and lightning flashed out of it.

The creatures were darting back and forth as quickly as flashes of lightning.

15 When I looked at the living creatures, I saw a wheel on the ground beside each creature with its four faces.

16 The workmanship of the wheels looked like the gleam of beryl, and all four had the same likeness. Their workmanship looked like a wheel within a wheel.

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Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
The creatures were darting back and forth as quickly as flashes of lightning.
KJV
And the living creatures ran and returned as the appearance of a flash of lightning.
WEB
The living creatures ran and returned as the appearance of a flash of lightning.
ASV
And the living creatures ran and returned as the appearance of a flash of lightning.
DARBY
And the living creatures ran and returned as the appearance of a flash of lightning.
BLB
And the living creatures [were] running and returning like the appearance of the lightning.
ÅB
Og livsvesenene fór fram og tilbake slik som lynglimt.
OTB
Skapningene fór frem og tilbake som lyn.
B1930
Og livsvesenene fór frem og tilbake likesom lynglimt.

Study notes (Tyndale)

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Cross references

  • Zechariah 4:10

    For who has despised the day of small things? But these seven eyes of the LORD, which scan the whole earth, will rejoice when they see the plumb line in the hand of Zerubbabel.”

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  • Matthew 24:27

    For just as the lightning comes from the east and flashes as far as the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.

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  • Daniel 9:21

    while I was still praying, Gabriel, the man I had seen in the earlier vision, came to me in swift flight about the time of the evening sacrifice.

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  • Mark 13:27

    And He will send out the angels to gather His elect from the four winds, from the ends of the earth to the ends of heaven.

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  • Luke 17:24

    For just as the lightning flashes and lights up the sky from one end to the other, so will be the Son of Man in His day.

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  • Psalms 147:15

    He sends forth His command to the earth; His word runs swiftly.

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  • Matthew 24:31

    And He will send out His angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather His elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other.

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  • Zechariah 2:3–4

    Then the angel who was speaking with me went out, and another angel came out to meet him

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