‘As for their rims (‘rings') they were high and frightening, and they four had their rims full of eyes round about.'
This may suggest the huge size of the wheels as it sped on, ‘high and frightening'. No wonder the whole thing could be described as terrifying, for it raced towards him like a great juggernaut, a giant chariot-throne of God. Adding to the effect was the fact that the rims were full of eyes. The idea would seem to be that the chariot itself saw where it was going, and espied everything, communicating it to the living creatures, for the wheels were closely associated with the living creatures. We can compare the seven eyes on the stone set before Joshua, the High Priest (Zechariah 3:9), which indicated ‘the eyes of Yahweh, they run to and fro over the whole earth' (Zechariah 4:10; compare also 2 Chronicles 16:9; Proverbs 15:3; Revelation 4:6).