Dual Panel1Then in my vision I saw, above the vault over the heads of the cherubim, as it were a sapphire in the shape of a throne.
2The LORD said to the man dressed in linen, “Come in between the circling wheels under the cherubim, and take a handful of the burning embers lying among the cherubim; then throw it over the city.” As I watched he went in.
3The cherubim stood on the right side of the temple as the man entered, and a cloud filled the inner court.
4The glory of the LORD rose high above the cherubim and moved to the terrace of the temple; and the temple was filled with the cloud, while the radiance of the glory of the LORD filled the court.
5The sound of the wings of the cherubim could be heard as far as the outer court; it was as if God Almighty were speaking.
6When the man dressed in linen was told by the LORD to take fire from between the circling wheels and from among the cherubim, he went and stood by a wheel,
7and one of the cherubim reached out to the fire that was in their midst and, taking some fire, handed it to the man dressed in linen, who received it and went away.
8Under the wings of the cherubim there could be seen what looked like a human hand.
9I saw four wheels beside the cherubim, one wheel beside each cherub. In appearance they were like sparkling topaz,
10and all four were alike, like a wheel inside a wheel.
11When the cherubim moved in any of the four directions, they never swerved from their course; they went straight on in the direction in which their heads were turned, never swerving.
12Their whole bodies, the backs, hands, and wings of all four of them, as well as the wheels, were covered all over with eyes,
13and I could hear the whirring of the wheels.
14Each had four faces: the first was a cherub's face, the second a human face, the third a lion's face, and the fourth an eagle's face.
15The cherubim raised themselves from the ground, those same living creatures I had seen by the river Kebar.
16When they moved, the wheels moved beside them; when they lifted their wings and rose from the ground, the wheels did not move from their side.
17When one halted, the other halted; when one rose, the other rose, for the spirit of the creatures was in the wheels.
18The glory of the LORD left the temple terrace and halted above the cherubim.
19They spread their wings and raised themselves from the ground; I watched them go with the wheels beside them. They halted at the eastern gateway of the LORD's house, with the glory of the God of Israel over them.
20These were the living creatures I had seen beneath the God of Israel at the river Kebar, and so I knew that they were cherubim.
21Each had four faces and four wings and what looked like human hands under their wings.
22Their faces were like those I had seen in my vision by the river Kebar. They all moved straight forward.