Ezekiel 10:2

And the LORD said to the man clothed in linen, “Go inside the wheelwork beneath the cherubim. Fill your hands with burning coals from among the cherubim and scatter them over the city.” And as I watched, he went in.

Berean Standard Bible

Follow its threads on the canvas →

Study note

Setting — The LORD commands the man clothed in linen to enter the wheelwork beneath the cherubim and take burning coals. This instruction follows Ezekiel’s vision of a sapphire throne positioned above the cherubim’s heads.

The words — The Hebrew בֹּא֩ (bo') issues a direct command to "go" or "enter" toward the cherubic apparatus. The participle לְבֻ֣שׁ (le.Vush) literally denotes "clothed," specifying the garment of the recipient in הַ/בַּדִּ֗ים (ha.ba.Dim), "the linen."

The thread — The act of taking fire from the sanctuary and scattering it over the city parallels the angel in Revelation 8:5 who fills a censer with altar fire and hurls it to earth. Ezekiel 1:13 previously establishes the origin of this fire by describing glowing coals moving among the living creatures.

Why it lands — The text records a precise, unhesitating execution of a divine judgment decree. The reader must note the immediate obedience of the figure and the concrete mechanism of prophetic warning without adding symbolic speculation.

Drafted by a language model from the text, its original words and its cross-references, then checked against them. It can still be wrong: open the verse in the app to report it.

The Hebrew words

King James Version

And he spake unto the man clothed with linen, and said, Go in between the wheels, even under the cherub, and fill thine hand with coals of fire from between the cherubims, and scatter them over the city. And he went in in my sight.

Cross-references

Revelation 8:5 Then the angel took the censer, filled it with fire from the altar, and hurled it to the earth; and there were peals of thunder, rumblings, flashes of lightning, and an earthquake.
Ezekiel 1:13 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.
Ezekiel 10:16 When the cherubim moved, the wheels moved beside them, and even when they spread their wings to rise from the ground, the wheels did not veer away from their side.
Exodus 9:8 Then the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “Take handfuls of soot from the furnace; in the sight of Pharaoh, Moses is to toss it into the air.
Psalms 18:12 From the brightness of His presence His clouds advanced—hailstones and coals of fire.
Psalms 140:10 May burning coals fall on them; may they be thrown into the fire, into the miry pits, never to rise again.
Isaiah 6:6 Then one of the seraphim flew to me, and in his hand was a glowing coal that he had taken with tongs from the altar.
Isaiah 30:30 And the LORD will cause His majestic voice to be heard and His mighty arm to be revealed, striking in angry wrath with a flame of consuming fire, and with cloudburst, storm, and hailstones.
Jeremiah 24:8 But like the bad figs, so bad they cannot be eaten,’ says the LORD, ‘so will I deal with Zedekiah king of Judah, his officials, and the remnant of Jerusalem—those remaining in this land and those living in the land of Egypt.
Ezekiel 1:15 When I looked at the living creatures, I saw a wheel on the ground beside each creature with its four faces.