Ezekiel 10:13
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New International Version (©2011)
I heard the wheels being called "the whirling wheels."

New Living Translation (©2007)
I heard someone refer to the wheels as "the whirling wheels."

English Standard Version (©2001)
As for the wheels, they were called in my hearing “the whirling wheels.”

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
The wheels were called in my hearing, the whirling wheels.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
As for the wheels, it was cried unto them in my hearing, O wheel.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
As I listened the wheels were called "the wheelwork."

International Standard Version (©2012)
The wheels whose sound I was hearing were called "the whirling wheels".

NET Bible (©2006)
As for their wheels, they were called "the wheelwork" as I listened.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
I heard that the wheels were called the whirling wheels.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
As for the wheels, it was cried unto them in my hearing, O wheel.

American King James Version
As for the wheels, it was cried to them in my hearing, O wheel.

American Standard Version
As for the wheels, they were called in my hearing, the whirling wheels .

Douay-Rheims Bible
And these wheels he called voluble, in my hearing.

Darby Bible Translation
As for the wheels, they were called in my hearing, Galgal.

English Revised Version
As for the wheels, they were called in my hearing, the whirling wheels.

Webster's Bible Translation
As for the wheels, it was cried to them in my hearing, O wheel.

World English Bible
As for the wheels, they were called in my hearing, the whirling [wheels].

Young's Literal Translation
To the wheels -- to them is one calling in mine ears, 'O wheel!'

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

10:8-22 Ezekiel sees the working of Divine providence in the government of the lower world, and the affairs of it. When God is leaving a people in displeasure, angels above, and all events below, further his departure. The Spirit of life, the Spirit of God, directs all creatures, in heaven and on earth, so as to make them serve the Divine purpose. God removes by degrees from a provoking people; and, when ready to depart, would return to them, if they were a repenting, praying people. Let this warn sinners to seek the Lord while he may be found, and to call on him while he is near, and cause us all to walk humbly and watchfully with our God.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 13. - As for the wheels, etc.; better, with the Revised Version, they were called in my hearing, the whirling wheels; or better still, to keep the collective force of the singular galgal, the chariot. He recognized that as the right name of the whole mysterious and complex form. It, was nothing less than the chariot throne of the King of the universe. There is no sufficient reason for taking the noun, with the Authorized Version, as a vocative.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

As for the wheels, it was cried to them in my hearing,.... Or they were called, as the prophet heard in the vision, by the following name:

O wheel, or, "the wheel": for though there are several particular churches, yet they make up but one general assembly and Church of the firstborn, written in heaven; and will be all together in their perfect state, signified by the round form of the wheel; See Gill on Ezekiel 1:15.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

13. O wheel—rather, "they were called, whirling," that is, they were most rapid in their revolutions [Maurer]; or, better, "It was cried unto them, The whirling" [Fairbairn]. Galgal here used for "wheel," is different from ophan, the simple word for "wheel." Galgal is the whole wheelwork machinery with its whirlwind-like rotation. Their being so addressed is in order to call them immediately to put themselves in rapid motion.

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God's Glory Exits the Temple
…12And their whole body, and their backs, and their hands, and their wings, and the wheels, were full of eyes round about, even the wheels that they four had. 13As for the wheels, it was cried to them in my hearing, O wheel. 14And every one had four faces: the first face was the face of a cherub, and the second face was the face of a man, and the third the face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle. …

Ezekiel 10:2 The LORD said to the man clothed in linen, "Go in among the wheels beneath the cherubim. Fill your hands with burning coals from among the cherubim and scatter them over the city." And as I watched, he went in.
Ezekiel 10:12 Their entire bodies, including their backs, their hands and their wings, were completely full of eyes, as were their four wheels.
Ezekiel 10:14 Each of the cherubim had four faces: One face was that of a cherub, the second the face of a human being, the third the face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle.