8 Bible Verses about Cherubim, Functions Of
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And the LORD God said, "Lo, Adam is become as it were one of us, in knowledge of good and evil. But now lest he stretch forth his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat and live ever -" and the LORD God cast him out of the garden of Eden, to till the earth whence he was taken. And he cast Adam out, and set at the entering of the garden Eden, Cherubim with a naked sword moving in and out, to keep the way to the tree of life.
I saw also four wheels beside the Cherubims, so that by every Cherub there stood a wheel. And the wheels were, to look upon, after the fashion of the precious stone of Tharsis, yet unto the sight were they fashioned and like, as if one wheel had been in another. When they went forth, they went all four together, not turning about in their going. But where the first went, thither went they after also, so that they turned not about in their going.read more.
Their whole bodies, their backs, their hands and wings, yea and the wheels also, were all full of eyes round about them, all four. And I heard him call the wheels Gilgal. Every one of them had four faces: so that the one face was the face of a Cherub, the second of a man, the third of a lion, the fourth of an Eagle, and they were lifted up above. This is the beast, that I saw at the water of Chebar. Now when the Cherubims went, the wheels went with them; and when the Cherubims shook their wings to lift themselves upward, the wheels remained not behind, but were with them also.
And he rode upon Cherub and flew: and appeared upon the wings of the wind.
He rode upon the Cherub, and did fly: he came flying upon the wings of the wind. {TYNDALE: And he rode upon Cherub and flew: and appeared upon the wings of the wind.}
for the glory of God was gone away from the Cherub, and was come down to the threshold of the house. And he called the man that had the linen raiment upon him, and the writer's inkhorn by his side,
Now the Cherubims stood upon the rightside of the house, when the man went in, and the cloud filled the innermore court. But the glory of the LORD removed from the Cherubims, and came upon the threshold of the house: so that the temple was full of clouds, and the court was full of the shine of the LORD's glory.
After this did the Cherubims lift up their wings, and the wheels went with them, and the glory of God was upon them. So the glory of the LORD went up from the midst of the city, and stood upon the mount of the city toward the east.
And one of the four beasts gave unto the seven angels seven golden vials, full of the wrath of God which liveth for evermore.