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Ezekiel 10:14 Explained in Context

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Verse 14. And 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.

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Role in This Section

Ezekiel's first-person vision report carries the next action, claim, image, or measurement through “And every one had four faces” at Ezekiel 10:14 as part of “The Cherubim and Wheels Move as One Living Throne.”

Read It With

  • Ezekiel 10:9–17

Keep Ezekiel 10:14 with the thought unit titled “The Cherubim and Wheels Move as One Living Throne.” Ezekiel's first-person vision report carries the next action, claim, image, or measurement through “And every one had four faces” at Ezekiel 10:14 as part of “The Cherubim and Wheels Move as One Living Throne.” The exilic setting and literary form govern its use.

Why It Needs Context

The verse is a premise, action, image, response, or transition within Ezekiel 10:9–17, not an independent maxim. Ezekiel's first-person vision report carries the next action, claim, image, or measurement through “And every one had four faces” at Ezekiel 10:14 as part of “The Cherubim and Wheels Move as One Living Throne.”

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Read Ezekiel 10:9–17 — The Cherubim and Wheels Move as One Living Throne
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How certain is this explanation? probable

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Biblical text

King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006

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USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.

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Exact location: Ezekiel 10:9–17, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus

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Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Ezekiel

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Open Scriptures, release 2.2

Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording and morphology checked at the exact unit without treating morphology as a critical apparatus or interpretation.

Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Ezek.xml, OSIS 10:9–17

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