Ezekiel 10:2

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Summary

And he spake unto the man clothed with linen, and said, Go in between the wheels, even under the cherub, and fill thine hand with coals of fire from between the cherubims, and scatter them over the city. And he went in in my sight.

Unto

Ezekiel 10:7

Ezekiel 9:2

Go

Ezekiel 10:8

Ezekiel 1:15

Coals

Scatter

Jeremiah 24:8

General references

Bible References

Unto

Then the cherub stretched out his hand from between the cherubim to the fire which was between the cherubim, took some and put it into the hands of the one clothed in linen, who took it and went out.

Behold, six men came from the direction of the upper gate which faces north, each with his shattering weapon in his hand; and among them was a certain man clothed in linen with a writing case at his loins. And they went in and stood beside the bronze altar.

Go

The cherubim appeared to have the form of a man’s hand under their wings.

Now as I looked at the living beings, behold, there was one wheel on the earth beside the living beings, for each of the four of them.

Coals

In the midst of the living beings there was something that looked like burning coals of fire, like torches darting back and forth among the living beings. The fire was bright, and lightning was flashing from the fire.

Then the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “Take for yourselves handfuls of soot from a kiln, and let Moses throw it toward the sky in the sight of Pharaoh.

From the brightness before Him passed His thick clouds,
Hailstones and coals of fire.

“May burning coals fall upon them;
May they be cast into the fire,
Into deep pits from which they cannot rise.

Then one of the seraphim flew to me with a burning coal in his hand, which he had taken from the altar with tongs.

Then the angel took the censer and filled it with the fire of the altar, and threw it to the earth; and there followed peals of thunder and sounds and flashes of lightning and an earthquake.

Scatter

and say to the forest of the Negev, ‘Hear the word of the Lord: thus says the Lord God, “Behold, I am about to kindle a fire in you, and it will consume every green tree in you, as well as every dry tree; the blazing flame will not be quenched and

the whole surface from south to north will be burned by it.

‘Therefore, thus says the Lord God,
“Woe to the bloody city!
I also will make the pile great.

He burned the house of the Lord, the king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem; even every great house he burned with fire.

And the Lord will cause His voice of authority to be heard,
And the descending of His arm to be seen in fierce anger,
And in the flame of a consuming fire
In cloudburst, downpour and hailstones.

‘But like the bad figs which cannot be eaten due to rottenness—indeed, thus says the Lord—so I will abandon Zedekiah king of Judah and his officials, and the remnant of Jerusalem who remain in this land and the ones who dwell in the land of Egypt.

General references

He made two cherubim of gold; he made them of hammered work at the two ends of the mercy seat;

Under their wings on their four sides were human hands. As for the faces and wings of the four of them,

And behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there, like the appearance which I saw in the plain.

It came about when He commanded the man clothed in linen, saying, “Take fire from between the whirling wheels, from between the cherubim,” he entered and stood beside a wheel.