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 one of the cherubim stretched out his hand toward the fire which was among the cherubim. He took some and put it into the hands of the man dressed in linen, who took it and left.

Next, I noticed six men coming from the direction of the upper gate which faces north, each with his war club in his hand. Among them was a man dressed in linen with a writing kit at his side. They came and stood beside the bronze altar.

Go

(The cherubim appeared to have the form of human hands under their wings.)

Then I looked, and I saw one wheel on the ground beside each of the four beings.

Coals

In the middle of the living beings was something like burning coals of fire or like torches. It moved back and forth among the living beings. It was bright, and lightning was flashing out of the fire.

Then the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, "Take handfuls of soot from a furnace, and have Moses throw it into the air while Pharaoh is watching.

From the brightness in front of him came hail and fiery coals.

May he rain down fiery coals upon them! May he throw them into the fire! From bottomless pits they will not escape.

But then one of the seraphs flew toward me. In his hand was a hot coal he had taken from the altar with tongs.

Then the angel took the censer, filled it with fire from the altar, and threw it on the earth, and there were crashes of thunder, roaring, flashes of lightning, and an earthquake.

Scatter

and say to the scrub land of the Negev, 'Hear the word of the Lord: This is what the sovereign Lord says: Look here, I am about to start a fire in you, and it will devour every green tree and every dry tree in you. The flaming fire will not be extinguished, and the whole surface of the ground from the Negev to the north will be scorched by it.

"'Therefore this is what the sovereign Lord says: Woe to the city of bloodshed! I will also make the pile high.

He burned down the Lord's temple, the royal palace, and all the houses in Jerusalem, including every large house.

The Lord will give a mighty shout and intervene in power, with furious anger and flaming, destructive fire, with a driving rainstorm and hailstones.

"I, the Lord, also solemnly assert: 'King Zedekiah of Judah, his officials, and the people who remain in Jerusalem or who have gone to live in Egypt are like those bad figs. I consider them to be just like those bad figs that are so bad they cannot be eaten.

General references

He made two cherubim of gold; he made them of hammered metal on the two ends of the atonement lid,

They had human hands under their wings on their four sides. As for the faces and wings of the four of them,

Then I perceived that the glory of the God of Israel was there, as in the vision I had seen earlier in the valley.

When the Lord commanded the man dressed in linen, "Take fire from within the wheelwork, from among the cherubim," the man went in and stood by one of the wheels.