1 Then I looked, and in the expanse that was over the head of the cherubim there appeared something like a sapphire stone, shaped like a throne. 2 He spoke to the man clothed in linen, "Go between the whirling wheels beneath the cherubim. Fill both your hands with burning coals from between the cherubim, and scatter them over the city." And he went while I watched. 3 Now the cherubim were standing on the right side of the temple, when the man went in; and the cloud filled the inner court. 4 Then the glory of the LORD went up over the cherub over the threshold of the temple. The temple was filled with the cloud, and the court was full of the brightness of LORD's glory. 5 The sound of the wings of the cherubim was heard even as far as the outer court, like the voice of God Almighty when he speaks. 6 Then he commanded the man clothed in linen, "Take fire from between the whirling wheels, from between the cherubim." So he went in and stood beside a wheel. 7 Then a cherub stretched out his hand from between the cherubim toward the fire that was between the cherubim, and took of it and put it into the hands of the one who was clothed in linen, who took it and went out. 8 And there appeared under the cherubim's wings the form of a human hand. 9 Then I looked, and saw four wheels beside the cherubim, one wheel beside one cherub, and another wheel beside another cherub; and the appearance of the wheels was like sparkling beryl. 10 And as for their appearance, all four looked alike, as a wheel within another wheel. 11 When they moved, they went in any of four directions without turning as they went, but wherever the head looked they moved without turning as they went. 12 Their whole body, their backs, their hands, their wings, and the wheels that all four of them had were full of eyes all around. 13 As for the wheels, they were called in my hearing, "the whirling wheels." 14 Each of them had four faces: the first face was the face of a cherub; the second, face the face of a man; the third face the face of a lion; and the fourth, the face of an eagle. 15 Then the cherubim took off upward. These were the living creatures that I saw by the Kebar river. 16 When the cherubim moved, the wheels moved alongside them; and when the cherubim lifted up their wings to take off from the earth, the wheels stayed beside them. 17 When they stood still, the wheels stood still; and when they took off, the wheels also took off with them, for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels. 18 Now the glory of the LORD went out over the threshold of the temple, and stopped over the cherubim. 19 Then the cherubim lifted their wings, and took off from the earth in my sight, when they went out and the wheels were beside them. They stopped at the entrance of the east gate of the LORD's temple; and the glory of the God of Israel hovered over them. 20 These were the living creatures that I saw underneath the God of Israel by the Kebar river; and I recognized that they were cherubim. 21 Each one had four faces, and each one had four wings; and under their wings was what looked like human hands. 22 As for the likeness of their faces, they were the same faces that I had seen by the Kebar river. Each of them moved straight forward.