God’s Glory Exits the Temple

1And as I looked, beholde, in the firmament that was aboue the head of the Cherubims there appeared vpon them like vnto the similitude of a throne, as it were a saphir stone. 2And he spake vnto the man clothed with linen, and said, Go in betweene the wheeles, euen vnder the Cherub, & fill thine hands with coales of fire from betweene the Cherubims, & scatter the ouer the citie; he went in in my sight.

3Now the Cherubims stood vpon the right side of the house, when the man went in, and the cloude filled the inner court. 4Then the glorie of the Lorde went vp from the Cherub, and stoode ouer the doore of the house, & the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was filled with the brightnesse of the Lordes glorie. 5And the sound of the Cherubims wings was heard into the vtter court, as the voyce of the Almightie God, when he speaketh.

6And when he had commaunded the man clothed with linnen, saying, Take fire from betweene the wheeles, & from betweene ye Cherubims, then he went in and stood beside ye wheele. 7And one Cherub stretched forth his hand from betweene the Cherubims vnto the fire, that was betweene the Cherubims, and tooke thereof, and put it into the hands of him that was clothed with linnen: who tooke it and went out. 8And there appeared in the Cherubims, the likenesse of a mans hande vnder their wings.

9And when I looked vp, beholde, foure wheeles were beside the Cherubims, one wheele by one Cherub, and another wheele by another Cherub, and the appearance of the wheeles was as the colour of a Chrysolite stone. 10And their appearance (for they were all foure of one facion) was as if one wheele had bene in another wheele. 11When they went foorth, they went vpon their foure sides, and they returned not as they went: but to the place whither the first went, they went after it, and they turned not as they went. 12And their whole bodie, and their rings, and their hands, and their wings, & the wheeles were full of eyes round about, euen in the same foure wheeles. 13And the Cherub cryed to these wheeles in mine hearing, saying, O wheele. 14And euery beast had foure faces: the first face was the face of a Cherub, & the second face was the face of a man, and the thirde the face of a lyon, and the fourth the face of an Egle.

15And the Cherubims were lifted vp: this is the beast that I sawe at the riuer Chebar. 16And when ye Cherubims went, the wheeles went by them: and when the Cherubims lift vp their wings to mount vp from the earth, the same wheeles also turned not from beside them. 17When the Cherubims stoode, they stood: & when they were lifted vp, they lifted the selues vp also: for the spirit of the beast was in them.

18Then the glorie of the Lorde departed from aboue the doore of the house, and stoode vpon the Cherubims. 19And the Cherubims lift vp their wings, and mounted vp from the earth in my sight: when they went out, the wheeles also were besides them: and euery one stoode at the entrie of the gate of the Lordes House at the East side, and the glorie of the God of Israel was vpo them on hie.

20This is the beast that I sawe vnder the God of Israel by the riuer Chebar, and I knewe that they were the Cherubims. 21Euery one had foure faces, and euery one foure wings, and the likenesse of mans hands was vnder their wings. 22And the likenes of their faces was the selfe same faces, which I sawe by the riuer Chebar, and the appearance of the Cherubims was ye selfe same, and they went euery one straight forwarde.