Ezekiel 10:15
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New International Version (©2011)
Then the cherubim rose upward. These were the living creatures I had seen by the Kebar River.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Then the cherubim rose upward. These were the same living beings I had seen beside the Kebar River.

English Standard Version (©2001)
And the cherubim mounted up. These were the living creatures that I saw by the Chebar canal.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Then the cherubim rose up. They are the living beings that I saw by the river Chebar.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And the cherubims were lifted up. This is the living creature that I saw by the river of Chebar.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
The cherubim ascended; these were the living creatures I had seen by the Chebar Canal.

International Standard Version (©2012)
The cherubim arose. These were the same beings that I had seen at the Chebar River.

NET Bible (©2006)
The cherubim rose up; these were the living beings I saw at the Kebar River.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
The angels rose. These were the living creatures that I saw at the Chebar River.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And the cherubim were lifted up. This is the living creature that I saw by the river of Chebar.

American King James Version
And the cherubim were lifted up. This is the living creature that I saw by the river of Chebar.

American Standard Version
And the cherubim mounted up: this is the living creature that I saw by the river Chebar.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the cherubims were lifted up: this is the living creature that I had seen by the river Chobar.

Darby Bible Translation
And the cherubim mounted up. This was the living creature that I saw by the river Chebar.

English Revised Version
And the cherubim mounted up: this is the living creature that I saw by the river Chebar.

Webster's Bible Translation
And the cherubim were lifted up. This is the living creature that I saw by the river of Kebar.

World English Bible
The cherubim mounted up: this is the living creature that I saw by the river Chebar.

Young's Literal Translation
And the cherubs are lifted up, it is the living creature that I saw by the river Chebar.

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

Verses 15-17. - As he gazes, the recognition is complete. What he sees in the courts of the temple is identical with the living creature by the river of Chebar. It moves as that moved, wheels and wings and cherubim, all as by one harmonious impulse.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And the cherubim were lifted up,.... From the earth; See Gill on Ezekiel 1:19;

this is the living creature that I saw by the river Chebar: a river in Chaldea, where the prophet was when he had the vision of the living creatures recorded in the "first" chapter; and hence it is out of doubt that the living creatures and the cherubim are the same.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

15. The repeated declaration of the identity of the vision with that at the Chebar is to arouse attention to it (Eze 10:22; 3:23).

the living creature—used collectively, as in Eze 10:17, 20; 1:20.

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God's Glory Exits the Temple
…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. 15And the cherubim were lifted up. This is the living creature that I saw by the river of Chebar. 16And when the cherubim went, the wheels went by them: and when the cherubim lifted up their wings to mount up from the earth, the same wheels also turned not from beside them. …

Ezekiel 1:1 In my thirtieth year, in the fourth month on the fifth day, while I was among the exiles by the Kebar River, the heavens were opened and I saw visions of God.
Ezekiel 1:3 the word of the LORD came to Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, by the Kebar River in the land of the Babylonians. There the hand of the LORD was on him.
Ezekiel 1:5 and in the fire was what looked like four living creatures. In appearance their form was human,
Ezekiel 10:16 When the cherubim moved, the wheels beside them moved; and when the cherubim spread their wings to rise from the ground, the wheels did not leave their side.
Ezekiel 10:20 These were the living creatures I had seen beneath the God of Israel by the Kebar River, and I realized that they were cherubim.