Ezekiel 1:14
What does Ezekiel 1:14 mean?
A plain-English look at Ezekiel 1:14 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000And the living creatures ran and returned as the appearance of a flash of lightning.
KJV
King James Version · 1611And the living creatures ran and returned as the appearance of a flash of lightning.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901And the living creatures ran and returned as the appearance of a flash of lightning.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949And the living beings went out and came back as quickly as a thunder-flame.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862And the living creatures are running, and turning back, as the appearance of the flash.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752And the living creatures ran and returned like flashes of lightning.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890And the living creatures ran and returned as the appearance of a flash of lightning.
Context
v.13As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, like the appearance of torches: the fire went up and down among the living creatures; and the fire was bright, and out of the fire went forth lightning.
v.14This passage
v.15Now as I beheld the living creatures, behold, one wheel upon the earth beside the living creatures, for each of the four faces thereof.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Matthew 24:31
And he shall send forth his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
- Zechariah 2:3
And, behold, the angel that talked with me went forth, and another angel went out to meet him,
- Matthew 24:27
For as the lightning cometh forth from the east, and is seen even unto the west; so shall be the coming of the Son of man.
- Psalms 147:15
He sendeth out his commandment upon earth; His word runneth very swiftly.
- Luke 17:24
for as the lightning, when it lighteneth out of the one part under the heaven, shineth unto the other part under heaven; so shall the Son of man be in his day.
- Zechariah 4:10
For who hath despised the day of small things? for these seven shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel; these are the eyes of Jehovah, which run to and fro through the whole earth.
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