Cherubim (2)

Description of the cherubim

Ezekiel 10:12–14 KJV 1900

And their whole body, and their backs, and their hands, and their wings, and the wheels, were full of eyes round about, even the wheels that they four had. As for the wheels, it was cried unto them in my hearing, O wheel. And every one had four faces: the first face was the face of a cherub, and the second face was the face of a man, and the third the face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle.

See also Eze 1:4–14; Eze 1:22–24; Eze 10:5; Eze 10:8; Eze 10:21–22; Eze 41:18–19; Re 4:6–8

Cherubim represented in the tabernacle and the temple

Cherubim as decorations

Exodus 26:1 KJV 1900

Moreover thou shalt make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet: with cherubims of cunning work shalt thou make them.

See also Ex 36:8; 1 Ki 6:29; 1 Ki 7:29; 1 Ki 7:36

Cherubim at the entrance to the inner sanctuary

Ex 26:31–33; Ex 36:35; 1 Ki 6:32; 1 Ki 6:35; 2 Ch 3:14

Cherubim over the ark of the covenant

Hebrews 9:5 KJV 1900

And over it the cherubims of glory shadowing the mercyseat; of which we cannot now speak particularly.

See also Ex 25:17–22; Ex 37:7–9; Nu 7:89; 1 Ki 6:23–28; 1 Ki 8:6–7; 1 Ch 28:18

Cherubim represented in Ezekiel’s vision of the temple

Eze 41:18; Eze 41:20; Eze 41:25

Cherubim represent the place of God’s throne

1 Samuel 4:4 KJV 1900

So the people sent to Shiloh, that they might bring from thence the ark of the covenant of the Lord of hosts, which dwelleth between the cherubims: and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were there with the ark of the covenant of God.

See also 2 Sa 6:2; 2 Ki 19:15; Ps 80:1; Ps 99:1; Eze 10:1; Re 4:6; Re 5:6

Cherubim as guardians

Genesis 3:24 KJV 1900

So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.

See also Eze 28:14; Eze 28:16

Cherubim as God’s chariot

2 Samuel 22:11 KJV 1900

And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: And he was seen upon the wings of the wind.

See also 1 Ch 28:18

Cherubim as agents of judgment

Cherubim remove God’s glory

Eze 9:3; Eze 10:3–4; Eze 10:15–19; Eze 11:22–23

God’s judgment poured out

Eze 10:2; Eze 10:6–7; Re 6:1–8 the living creatures release the four horsemen of God’s judgment on earth; Re 15:7