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Ezekiel 1:14
Ezekiel 1:14 is verse 14 of Ezekiel chapter 1, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
The creatures were darting back and forth as quickly as flashes of lightning.
King James Version
And the living creatures ran and returned as the appearance of a flash of lightning.
World English Bible
The living creatures ran and returned as the appearance of a flash of lightning.
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Ezekiel 1:12–16 · Berean Standard Bible
12 Each creature went straight ahead. Wherever the spirit would go, they would go, without turning as they moved.
13 In the midst of the living creatures was the appearance of glowing coals of fire, or of torches. Fire moved back and forth between the living creatures; it was bright, and lightning flashed out of it.
14 The creatures were darting back and forth as quickly as flashes of lightning.
15 When I looked at the living creatures, I saw a wheel on the ground beside each creature with its four faces.
16 The workmanship of the wheels looked like the gleam of beryl, and all four had the same likeness. Their workmanship looked like a wheel within a wheel.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Psalms 147:15He sends forth His command to the earth; His word runs swiftly.
Daniel 9:21while I was still praying, Gabriel, the man I had seen in the earlier vision, came to me in swift flight about the time of the evening sacrifice.
Zechariah 2:3Then the angel who was speaking with me went out, and another angel came out to meet him
Zechariah 2:4and said to him, “Run and tell that young man: ‘Jerusalem will be a city without walls because of the multitude of men and livestock within it.
Zechariah 4:10For who has despised the day of small things? But these seven eyes of the LORD, which scan the whole earth, will rejoice when they see the plumb line in the hand of Zerubbabel.”
Matthew 24:27For just as the lightning comes from the east and flashes as far as the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.
Matthew 24:31And He will send out His angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather His elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other.
Mark 13:27And He will send out the angels to gather His elect from the four winds, from the ends of the earth to the ends of heaven.