Ezekiel 1:17

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

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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 cons...
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...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

turned . The 1611 edition of the Authorized Version reads "returned".
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 creat...
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 contemp...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Returned not— Turned not.
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...
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 t...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

They turned not when they went ] as in Ezekiel 1:9 ; Ezekiel 1:12 . The wheels of course revolved, but, like the living creatures, they could move...
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 consid...
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 Chapte...
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...
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 th...
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...
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 sid...
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. ]...
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 whe...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Vision of the Wheels. B. C. 595. ...
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 t...
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 w...
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....
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 auspi...
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 ma...
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 Introd...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Four-Faced Wheels and the Four Creatures.
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

When they went, they went upon their four sides, they could go in four directions, due to that double construction; and they turned not when they we...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ezekiel 1:12 ; Ezekiel 1:9 ; Ezekiel 11:25 ; Isaiah 55:11
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...

¹⁷ When they went, they went upon their four sides: and they turned not when they went.

Related Commentaries of Ezekiel 1:17

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Ezekiel 1:17