Ezekiel 10:5
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New International Version (©2011)
The sound of the wings of the cherubim could be heard as far away as the outer court, like the voice of God Almighty when he speaks.

New Living Translation (©2007)
The moving wings of the cherubim sounded like the voice of God Almighty and could be heard even in the outer courtyard.

English Standard Version (©2001)
And the sound of the wings of the cherubim was heard as far as the outer court, like the voice of God Almighty when he speaks.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Moreover, the sound of the wings of the cherubim was heard as far as the outer court, like the voice of God Almighty when He speaks.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And the sound of the cherubims' wings was heard even to the outer court, as the voice of the Almighty God when he speaketh.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
The sound of the cherubim's wings could be heard as far as the outer court; it was like the voice of God Almighty when He speaks.

International Standard Version (©2012)
The sound of the wings of the cherubim, reminiscent of the voice of the Sovereign God when he speaks, could be heard as far as the outer court.

NET Bible (©2006)
The sound of the wings of the cherubim could be heard from the outer court, like the sound of the sovereign God when he speaks.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
The sound of the angels' wings was heard as far as the outer courtyard. It was like the sound of the Almighty God when he speaks.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And the sound of the cherubim's wings was heard even to the outer court, as the voice of the Almighty God when he speaks.

American King James Version
And the sound of the cherubims' wings was heard even to the outer court, as the voice of the Almighty God when he speaks.

American Standard Version
And the sound of the wings of the cherubim was heard even to the outer court, as the voice of God Almighty when he speaketh.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the sound of the wings of the cherubims was heard even to the out- ward court as the voice of God Almighty speaking.

Darby Bible Translation
And the sound of the wings of the cherubim was heard to the outer court, as the voice of the Almighty łGod when he speaketh.

English Revised Version
And the sound of the wings of the cherubim was heard even to the outer court, as the voice of God Almighty when he speaketh.

Webster's Bible Translation
And the sound of the cherubim's wings was heard even to the outer court, as the voice of the Almighty God when he speaketh.

World English Bible
The sound of the wings of the cherubim was heard even to the outer court, as the voice of God Almighty when he speaks.

Young's Literal Translation
And a noise of the wings of the cherubs hath been heard unto the outer court, as the voice of God -- the Mighty One -- in His speaking.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

10:1-7 The fire being taken from between the wheels, under the cherubim, ch. 1:13, seems to have signified the wrath of God to be executed upon Jerusalem. It intimated that the fire of Divine wrath, which kindles judgment upon a people, is just and holy; and in the great day, the earth, and all the works that are therein, will be burnt up.

Pulpit Commentary

Verses 5, 6. - And the sound of the cherubim. The use of God Almighty (El Shaddai; comp. Exodus 6:3), the name of God as ruling over nature, while Jehovah expressed his covenant relationship to Israel, is, it may be noted, characteristic of the early stage of the religion of Israel (Genesis 17:1; Genesis 28:3; Genesis 43:14; Genesis 48:3). Shaddai alone appears eighty-one times in the Book of Job. Psalm 29. explains the voice of El Shaddai (though there it is "the voice of Jehovah") as meaning the roar of the thunder. The hands of the "living creatures," now recognized as cherubim, had been mentioned in Ezekiel 1:8, and it is one of those hands that gives the fire into the hands of the linen vested minister of wrath. The elemental forces of nature, of which the cherubim are, partly at least, the symbols, are working out the purposes of Jehovah. The two words translated wheels are different in the Hebrew. The first is singular and collective (galgal, the "whirling thing," used of the wheel of a war chariot, Ezekiel 23:24; Isaiah 5:28), and might well be translated "chariot" here. The second, that used in Ezekiel 1:15, 16, also in the singular, is applied to the single wheel of the four by which the angel, ministers stood.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And the sound of the cherubim's wings was heard even to the outer court,.... Or outward court. The sound of the Gospel, which is a joyful sound; a sound of love, grace, and mercy; of life, liberty, peace, pardon, righteousness, and salvation by Christ; the sound of this in the swift ministry of the apostles, signified by the "cherubim's wings", went into all the earth, and throughout the whole Gentile world; by which many souls were quickened and enlightened; many churches were formed; and the glory of the Lord, being revealed, was seen by all flesh; and the whole world was filled with the brightness of the Lord's glory, as it will be again, and more abundantly, in the latter day: and this sound was

as the voice of the Almighty God when he speaketh; the Gospel is as thunder, which is the voice of God; and the ministers of it are "Boanergeses", "sons of thunder", Mark 3:17, it shakes the conscience; shows men their danger; and points at the Saviour: it is not the word of man, but in deed and in truth the word of God: it is the voice of Christ, who is the Almighty; and it appears to be so, by its powerful effects, when attended with a divine energy, in quickening dead sinners; enlightening dark minds; unstopping deaf ears; softening hard hearts; and turning men from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God; it is so when God speaks in it, and by it; when it comes not in word only, but in the Holy Ghost, and in power.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

5. sound of … wings—prognostic of great and awful changes.

voice of … God—the thunder (Ps 29:3, &c.).

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God's Glory Exits the Temple
…4Then the glory of the LORD went up from the cherub, and stood over the threshold of the house; and the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was full of the brightness of the LORD's glory. 5And the sound of the cherubims' wings was heard even to the outer court, as the voice of the Almighty God when he speaks. 6And it came to pass, that when he had commanded the man clothed with linen, saying, Take fire from between the wheels, from between the cherubim; then he went in, and stood beside the wheels. …

Revelation 10:3 and he gave a loud shout like the roar of a lion. When he shouted, the voices of the seven thunders spoke.
Job 40:9 Do you have an arm like God's, and can your voice thunder like his?
Isaiah 6:8 Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, "Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?" And I said, "Here am I. Send me!"
Ezekiel 1:24 When the creatures moved, I heard the sound of their wings, like the roar of rushing waters, like the voice of the Almighty, like the tumult of an army. When they stood still, they lowered their wings.
Ezekiel 10:6 When the LORD commanded the man in linen, "Take fire from among the wheels, from among the cherubim," the man went in and stood beside a wheel.
Ezekiel 40:17 Then he brought me into the outer court. There I saw some rooms and a pavement that had been constructed all around the court; there were thirty rooms along the pavement.