Ezekiel 10:20

God's Presence Leaves The Temple

¹⁹ As I looked at them, the cherubim lifted up their wings and rose up from the earth, they departed with the wheels beside them; and they stood still at the entrance of the east gate of the house of the Lord, and the glory and brilliance of the God of Israel hovered over them. ²⁰ These are the living beings that I saw beneath the God of Israel by the River Chebar; and I knew that they were cherubim. ²¹ Each one had four faces and each one had four wings, and beneath their wings was the form of human hands.

God of Israel

Living Creature

Living Creatures

Chebar

Israel

Ezekiel 1:1

Now it came about [when I was] in my thirtieth year [of life], on the fifth day of the fourth month, while I was among the exiles beside the River Chebar [in Babylonia], the heavens were opened and I saw visions of God.

Ezekiel 10:15

Then the cherubim rose upward. They are the [same four] living beings [regarded as one] that I saw by the River Chebar [in Babylonia].

1 Kings 6:29-35

He carved all the walls of the house all around with carved engravings of cherubim, palm-shaped decorations, and open flowers, [both] the inner and the outer sanctuaries.

1 Kings 7:36

And on the surface of its supports and its borders Hiram engraved cherubim, lions, and palm-shaped decorations, according to the [available] space for each, with borders all around.

Ezekiel 1:5

Within it there were figures resembling four living beings. And this was their appearance: they had human form.

Ezekiel 1:22-28

Now stretched over the heads of the living beings there was something like an expanse, looking like the terrible and awesome shimmer of icy crystal.

Ezekiel 3:23

So I got up and went out to the plain; and behold, the glory and brilliance of the Lord was standing there, like the glory I had seen by the River Chebar, and I fell face downward.