Ezekiel 1:17 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ When they went, they went upon their four sides: and they turned not when they went. ”

Ezekiel 1:17 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Upon their four sides - i. e. straight in the direction toward which their faces looked. Since the four quarters express all directions, the construction of the living creatures was such that the...
Ezekiel 1:17 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 1-3. Ezekiel Enters upon his Ministry. Ezekiel 1:1-28 . Ezekiel's Vision. Ezekiel 1:1-3 . Like the prophets generally, Ezekiel enters upon his ministry only after he has had a vision o...
Ezekiel 1:17 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

turned . The 1611 edition of the Authorized Version reads "returned".
Ezekiel 1:17 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

What he had already explained he now repeats for the sake of confirmation, that they went upon their four sides — that is, each living creature proceeded straight forward; the words they t...
Ezekiel 1:17 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

When they went, they went upon their four sides: and they turned not when they went.
Ezekiel 1:17 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Behold one wheel upon the earth— The prophet now proceeds to describe the wheels of this chariot borne by the living creatures. "Now, as I contemplated these living creatures (says he) there app...
Ezekiel 1:17 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

When they went, they went upon their four sides: and they turned not when they went. They went upon their four sides. Those faces or sides of the four wheels moved which answered to the direc...
Ezekiel 1:17 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

§ 1. Ezekiel's Call and Consecration as a Prophet (Ezekiel 1-3) Date, June-July, 592 b.c. Ezekiel's call and consecration to his prophetic work took place by means of a vision of God's glory ( Ez...
Ezekiel 1:17 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Upon their four sides — i.e. , forwards or backwards upon the one wheel, and to the right or the left upon the other. Four directions are considered throughout the vision as representing all dir...
Ezekiel 1:17 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

THE VISION OF THE GLORY OF GOD Ezekiel 1:1-28 IT might be hazardous to attempt, from the general considerations advanced in the last two Chapter s, to form a conception of Ezekiel's state of mi...
Ezekiel 1:17 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

a Vision of God's Majesty Ezekiel 1:1-21 A dark storm-cloud approaches the prophet, from which an incessant blaze of lightning scintillated. As it drew near, the forms of four living creatures...
Ezekiel 1:17 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The Book opens with the account of the prophet's preparation, and falls into two sections, the first describing the visions he saw, and the second the voice he heard. Verses Eze 1:2-3 in this chapte...
Ezekiel 1:17 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

It is worthy the Reader's closest attention, how often during this account the appearance of a man is spoken of. Was it, (for I only ask the question, and do not presume to decide), to lead the Proph...
Ezekiel 1:17 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

When they went, they went upon their four sides ,.... On either of their crossing rings, as they were directed by the living creatures, at whose side they stood: [and] they returned not when they...
Ezekiel 1:17 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

When they went, they went upon their four sides: [and] they turned not when they went. Ver. 17. When they went, they went upon their four sides. ] Or, According to their four sides - i.e., thro...
Ezekiel 1:17 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

When they went Namely, the wheels; they went upon their four sides The wheels being supposed spherical as a globe, by an exact framing of two wheels one in the other, the four semicircles, which...
Ezekiel 1:17 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Vision of the Wheels. B. C. 595. 15 Now as I beheld the living creatures, behold o...
Ezekiel 1:17 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

When they went; the living creatures; indeed the wheels moved according to the motion of the living creatures, but it will as well agree with the truth, as it better agrees with the grammar of the...
Ezekiel 1:17 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘Now as I beheld the living creatures, behold one wheel upon earth beside the living creatures, for each of their four faces. The appearance of the wheels and their work was like the colour of topaz,...
Ezekiel 1:17 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

2. THE VIEW GIVEN TO EZEKIEL OF “THE LIKENESS OF THE GLORY OF THE LORD” (Chap. Ezekiel 1:4-28 ) EXEGETICAL NOTES.— Ezekiel 1:4 . The storm-cloud. “A whirlwind,” a tempest such as Job perceived (...
Ezekiel 1:17 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ezekiel 1:1 . In the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, and fifth day of the month. The Jews were accustomed to reckon time from great and auspicious events, as the call of Abraham, the exodus f...
Ezekiel 1:17 - The Biblical Illustrator

And they turned not when they went. Concentrated lives It is a grand thing to see a man thoroughly possessed with one master passion. Such a man is sure to be strong, and if the master principl...
Ezekiel 1:17 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION For the life of the prophet prior to the vision which this chapter relates, and which constituted his call to that office, see Introduction. Ezekiel 1:1 Now ; literally, and....
Ezekiel 1:17 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Four-Faced Wheels and the Four Creatures.
Ezekiel 1:17 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ezekiel 1:12 ; Ezekiel 1:9 ; Ezekiel 11:25 ; Isaiah 55:11
Ezekiel 1:17 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

They — The wheels. Four sides — The wheels being supposed round every way as a globe, by an exact framing of two wheels one in the other; the four semi — circles which are in two whole wheels, may...

Ezekiel 1:17 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Ezekiel 1:17 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 1:17 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Ezekiel 1:17 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 1:17 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Ezekiel 1:17 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Ezekiel 1:17 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Ezekiel 1:17 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 1:17 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Ezekiel 1:17 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Ezekiel 1:17 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Ezekiel 1:17 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Ezekiel 1:17 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Ezekiel 1:17 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Ezekiel 1:17 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Ezekiel 1:17 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ezekiel 1:17 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Ezekiel 1:17 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Ezekiel 1:17 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 1:17 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Ezekiel 1:17 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ezekiel 1:17 - The Biblical Illustrator

Ezekiel 1:17 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Ezekiel 1:17 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Ezekiel 1:17 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ezekiel 1:17 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes