Ezekiel 10:20
Good News Translation
I recognized them as the same creatures which I had seen beneath the God of Israel at the Chebar River.

New Revised Standard Version
These were the living creatures that I saw underneath the God of Israel by the river Chebar; and I knew that they were cherubim.

Contemporary English Version
I knew for sure that these were the same creatures I had seen beneath the LORD's glory near the Chebar River.

New American Bible
These were the living creatures I had seen beneath the God of Israel by the river Chebar. Now I knew they were cherubim.

Douay-Rheims Bible
This is the living creature, which I saw under the God of Israel by the river Chobar: and I understood that they were cherubims.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

This is the living creature, which I saw under the God of Israel by the river Chobar: and I understood that they were cherubims.

the living

Ezekiel 10:15 And the cherubims were lifted up: this is the living creature that I had seen by the river Chobar.

Ezekiel 1:22-28 And over the heads of the living creatures was the likeness of the firmament, the appearance of crystal terrible to behold, and stretched out over their heads above. . . .

Ezekiel 3:23 And I rose up, and went forth into the plain: and behold the glory of the Lord stood there, like the glory which I saw by the river Chobar: and I fell upon my face.

the river

Ezekiel 1:1 Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, on the fifth day of the month, when I was in the midst of the captives by the river Chobar, the heavens were opened, and I saw the visions of God.

and I

1 Kings 6:29-35 And all the walls of the temple round about he carved with divers figures and carvings: and he made in them cherubims and palm trees, and divers representations, as it were standing out, and coming forth from the wall. . . .

1 Kings 7:36 He engraved also in those plates, which were of brass, and in the corners, cherubims, and lions, and palm trees, in likeness of a man standing, so that they seemed not to be engraven, but added round about.

Context
God's Glory Exits the Temple
19And the cherubims lifting up their wings, were raised from the earth before me: and as they went out, the wheels also followed: and it stood in the entry of the east gate of the house of the Lord: and the glory of the God of Israel was over them. 20This is the living creature, which I saw under the God of Israel by the river Chobar: and I understood that they were cherubims.21Each one had four faces, and each one had four wings: and the likeness of a man's hand was under their wings.…
Cross References
Ezekiel 1:1
Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, on the fifth day of the month, when I was in the midst of the captives by the river Chobar, the heavens were opened, and I saw the visions of God.

Ezekiel 1:5
And in the midst thereof the likeness of four living creatures: and this was their appearance: there was the likeness of a man in them.

Ezekiel 1:22
And over the heads of the living creatures was the likeness of the firmament, the appearance of crystal terrible to behold, and stretched out over their heads above.

Ezekiel 10:15
And the cherubims were lifted up: this is the living creature that I had seen by the river Chobar.

Ezekiel 43:3
And I saw the vision according to the appearance which I had seen when he came to destroy the city: and the appearance was according to the vision which I had seen by the river Chobar: and I fell upon my face.

Ezekiel 10:19
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