◄ Ezekiel 1:17 ►
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Good News Translation
so that the wheels could move in any of the four directions.

New Revised Standard Version
When they moved, they moved in any of the four directions without veering as they moved.

Contemporary English Version
so that they could move in any direction without turning.

New American Bible
When they moved, they went in any of the four directions without veering as they moved.

Douay-Rheims Bible
When they went, they went by their four parts: and they turned not when they went.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

When they went, they went by their four parts: and they turned not when they went.

and

Ezekiel 1:9,12 And the wings of one were joined to the wings of another. They turned not when they went: but every one went straight forward. . . .

Ezekiel 10:1-11:25 And I saw and behold in the firmament that was over the heads of the cherubims, there appeared over them as it were the sapphire stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a throne. . . .

Isaiah 55:11 So shall my word be, which shall go forth from my mouth: it shall not return to me void, but it shall do whatsoever I please, and shall prosper in the things for which I sent it.

Context
The Four Wheels
…16And the appearance of the wheels, and the work of them was like the appearance of the sea: and the four had all one likeness: and their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel in the midst of a wheel. 17When they went, they went by their four parts: and they turned not when they went.18The wheels had also a size, and a height, and a dreadful appearance: and the whole body was full of eyes round about all the four.…
Cross References
Ezekiel 1:8
And they had the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides: and they had faces, and wings on the four sides,

Ezekiel 1:9
And the wings of one were joined to the wings of another. They turned not when they went: but every one went straight forward.

Ezekiel 1:12
And every one of them went straight forward: whither the impulse of the spirit was to go, thither they went: and they turned not when they went.

Ezekiel 10:11
And when they went, they went by four ways: and they turned not when they went: but to the place whither they first turned, the rest also followed, and did not turn back.

Ezekiel 1:16
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