Ezekiel 1:17
Translations
King James Version (KJV)
When they went, they went on their four sides: and they turned not when they went.
American King James Version (AKJV)
When they went, they went on their four sides: and they turned not when they went.
American Standard Version (ASV)
When they went, they went in their four directions: they turned not when they went.
Basic English Translation (BBE)
The four of them went straight forward without turning to one side.
Webster's Revision
When they went, they went upon their four sides: and they returned not when they went.
World English Bible
When they went, they went in their four directions: they didn't turn when they went.
English Revised Version (ERV)
When they went, they went upon their four sides: they turned not when they went.
Barnes's Ezekiel 1:17 Bible Commentary
Upon their four sides - i. e. straight in the direction toward which their faces looked. Since the four quarters express all directions, the construction of the living creatures was such that they could move in each direction alike.
Wesley's Ezekiel 1:17 Bible Commentary
1:17 They - The wheels. Four sides - The wheels being supposed round every way as a globe, by an exact framing of two wheels one in the other; the four semi - circles which are in two whole wheels, may be well taken for these four sides on which these wheels move, and such a wheel will readily be turned to all points of the compass. Returned not - They returned not 'till they came to their journey's end; nothing could divert them, or put them out of their course. So firm and sure are the methods, so unalterable and constant the purposes of God, and so invariable the obedience and observance of holy angels. So subject to the sovereign will of God are all second causes.
