Ezekiel 10:5
New International Version
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
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
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.

Berean Standard Bible
The sound of the wings of the cherubim could be heard as far as the outer court, like the voice of God Almighty when He speaks.

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

New King James Version
And the sound of the wings of the cherubim was heard even in the outer court, like the voice of Almighty God when He speaks.

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

NASB 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.

NASB 1977
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.

Legacy Standard Bible
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.

Amplified Bible
And the sound of the wings of the cherubim was heard [even] as far as the outer courtyard, like the voice of God Almighty when He speaks.

Christian Standard Bible
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.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
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.

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.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And the sound of the wings of the Cherubim was heard unto the outer court, like the voice of God whenever he speaks

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And the sound of the cherubs' wings was heard as far as the outer court, as the voice of the Almighty God speaking.

Contemporary English Version
The sound of the creatures' wings was as loud as the voice of God All-Powerful and could even be heard in the outer courtyard.

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.

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.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
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.

Good News Translation
The noise made by the creatures' wings was heard even in the outer courtyard. It sounded like the voice of Almighty God.

International Standard Version
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.

JPS Tanakh 1917
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.

Literal Standard Version
And a noise of the wings of the cherubim has been heard in the outer court, as the voice of God—the Mighty One—in His speaking.

Majority Standard Bible
The sound of the wings of the cherubim could be heard as far as the outer court, like the voice of God Almighty when He speaks.

New American Bible
The sound of the wings of the cherubim could be heard as far as the outer court; it was like the voice of God Almighty speaking.

NET Bible
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.

New Revised Standard Version
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 Heart English Bible
The sound of the wings of the cherubim was heard even to the outer court, as the voice of El Shaddai when he speaks.

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.

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
God's Glory Exits the Temple
4Then the glory of the LORD rose from above the cherubim and stood over the threshold of the temple. The temple was filled with the cloud, and the court was filled with the brightness of the glory of the LORD. 5The sound of the wings of the cherubim could be heard as far as the outer court, like the voice of God Almighty when He speaks. 6When the LORD commanded the man clothed in linen, saying, “Take fire from within the wheelwork, from among the cherubim,” the man went in and stood beside a wheel.…

Cross References
Revelation 10:3
Then he cried out in a loud voice like the roar of a lion. And when he cried out, the seven thunders sounded their voices.

Job 40:9
Do you have an arm like God's? Can you thunder with a voice like His?

Isaiah 6:8
Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying: "Whom shall I send? 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 many 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 clothed in linen, saying, "Take fire from within the wheelwork, from among the cherubim," the man went in and stood beside a wheel.

Ezekiel 40:17
Then he brought me into the outer court, and there were chambers and a pavement laid out all around the court. Thirty chambers faced the pavement,


Treasury of Scripture

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

the sound

Ezekiel 1:24
And when they went, I heard the noise of their wings, like the noise of great waters, as the voice of the Almighty, the voice of speech, as the noise of an host: when they stood, they let down their wings.

outer

Ezekiel 46:21
Then he brought me forth into the utter court, and caused me to pass by the four corners of the court; and, behold, in every corner of the court there was a court.

1 Kings 7:9
All these were of costly stones, according to the measures of hewed stones, sawed with saws, within and without, even from the foundation unto the coping, and so on the outside toward the great court.

2 Chronicles 4:9
Furthermore he made the court of the priests, and the great court, and doors for the court, and overlaid the doors of them with brass.

the voice

Ezekiel 20:18,19
But I said unto their children in the wilderness, Walk ye not in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols: …

Deuteronomy 4:12,13
And the LORD spake unto you out of the midst of the fire: ye heard the voice of the words, but saw no similitude; only ye heard a voice…

Job 37:2-5
Hear attentively the noise of his voice, and the sound that goeth out of his mouth…

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Ezekiel 10
1. The vision of the coals of fire, to be scattered over the city
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(5) The sound of the cherubims' wings.--This sound indicates that the cherubim were already in motion, for when they stood they "let down their wings" (Ezekiel 1:24). They were now just on the eve of going away, and the movement was a great one, so that the sound was "heard even to the outer court" Throughout this chapter the s in cherubims is quite unnecessary, since cherubim is already the Hebrew plural of cherub.

Ezekiel 10:6-7 are not subsequent in time to Ezekiel 10:5, but are simply a more particular account, given parenthetically, of what had already been briefly mentioned in Ezekiel 10:2.

Ezekiel 10:8-17 are largely a repetition of the description of the vision in Ezekiel 1, but it is here given in parts, parenthetically, in connection with the progress of the narrative. The course of the narrative itself is as follows :--After the man in linen has gone out (Ezekiel 10:7), a command is issued, "O wheel." They were to set themselves in motion. Then (Ezekiel 10:15) they "were lifted up," and (Ezekiel 10:18-19) "the glory of the Lord departed" from the Temple, and "mounted up from the earth." The repetition of the description of Ezekiel 1 is by no means accidental, but serves partly to connect the various particulars with the course of the symbolic narrative, and mainly to emphasize the identity of the glory departing from the Temple with the Divine glory before seen. There are, however, several variations from the former description. Particularly in Ezekiel 10:12 (as in Revelation 4:6) there is mention of the abundance of eyes, a symbol of vigilance and activity, covering the whole body of the cherubim and the wheels. In Ezekiel 10:14, after saying that "every one had four faces," as in Ezekiel 1, the particular faces are described, but with this important variation :--the first is said to be "the face of a cherub," instead of "the face of an ox," as in Ezekiel 1; more exactly it is "the face of the cherub," since the Hebrew has the definite article. The reason of this variation and the meaning of "the face of the cherub" are both obscure. In Ezekiel 10:22 it is expressly said that their faces were the same as those seen by the Chebar; and again, in Ezekiel 10:15-20, the whole vision is described as the "living creature" seen by the Chebar. It is plain, therefore, that the variation is only in the description, and not in the thing described. The most natural solution of the difficulty in the text as it stands is that a cherub was ordinarily represented with the face of an ox. But there is no evidence of this, and it is not impossible that a slight error may have been introduced into the text. The Greek version did not contain the verse in the time of St. Jerome, and in its Roman form does not now. It was introduced into the Alexandrian copies from the later version of Theodotion, and Theodoret does not recognise it. . . .

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.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
The sound
וְקוֹל֙ (wə·qō·wl)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 6963: A voice, sound

of the wings
כַּנְפֵ֣י (kan·p̄ê)
Noun - feminine plural construct
Strong's 3671: An edge, extremity, a wing, a flap, a quarter, a pinnacle

of the cherubim
הַכְּרוּבִ֔ים (hak·kə·rū·ḇîm)
Article | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 3742: Probably an order of angelic beings

could be heard
נִשְׁמַ֕ע (niš·ma‘)
Verb - Nifal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 8085: To hear intelligently

as
עַד־ (‘aḏ-)
Preposition
Strong's 5704: As far as, even to, up to, until, while

far as the outer
הַחִיצֹנָ֑ה (ha·ḥî·ṣō·nāh)
Article | Adjective - feminine singular
Strong's 2435: The, wall side, exterior, secular

court,
הֶחָצֵ֖ר (he·ḥā·ṣêr)
Article | Noun - common singular
Strong's 2691: A yard, a hamlet

like the voice
כְּק֥וֹל (kə·qō·wl)
Preposition-k | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 6963: A voice, sound

of God
אֵל־ (’êl-)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 410: Strength -- as adjective, mighty, the Almighty

Almighty
שַׁדַּ֖י (šad·day)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 7706: The Almighty

when He speaks.
בְּדַבְּרֽוֹ׃ (bə·ḏab·bə·rōw)
Preposition-b | Verb - Piel - Infinitive construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 1696: To arrange, to speak, to subdue


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