Ezekiel 10:17
Good News Translation
When the creatures stopped, the wheels stopped; and when the creatures flew, the wheels went with them, because the creatures controlled them.

New Revised Standard Version
When they stopped, the others stopped, and when they rose up, the others rose up with them; for the spirit of the living creatures was in them.

New American Bible
When they stood still, the wheels stood still; when they rose up, the wheels rose up with them, for the spirit of the living creatures was in them.

Douay-Rheims Bible
When they stood, these stood: and when they were lifted up, these were lifted up: for the spirit of life was in them.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

When they stood, these stood: and when they were lifted up, these were lifted up: for the spirit of life was in them.

for

Ezekiel 1:12,20,21 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. . . .

of the living creature.

Genesis 2:7 And the Lord God formed man of the slime of the earth: and breathed into his face the breath of life, and man became a living soul.

Romans 8:2 For the law of the spirit of life, in Christ Jesus, hath delivered me from the law of sin and of death.

Revelation 11:11 And after three days and a half, the spirit of life from God entered into them. And they stood upon their feet: and great fear fell upon them that saw them.

Context
God's Glory Exits the Temple
16And when the cherubims went, the wheels also went by them: and when the cherubims lifted up their wings, to mount up from the earth, the wheels stayed not behind, but were by them. 17When they stood, these stood: and when they were lifted up, these were lifted up: for the spirit of life was in them.18And the glory of the Lord went forth from the threshold of the temple: and stood over the cherubims.…
Cross References
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 1:21
When those went these went, and when those stood these stood, and when those were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up together, and followed them: for the spirit of life was in the wheels.

Ezekiel 3:13
The noise of the wings of the living creatures striking one against another, and the noise of the wheels following the living creatures, and the noise of a great commotion.

Ezekiel 10:16
And when the cherubims went, the wheels also went by them: and when the cherubims lifted up their wings, to mount up from the earth, the wheels stayed not behind, but were by them.

Ezekiel 10:16
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