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Bible Verses About Cherubim

19 verses · 21 aspects

Key Bible Verses

  1. You shall make two cherubim of hammered gold. You shall make them at the two ends of the mercy seat.

  2. Make one cherub at the one end, and one cherub at the other end. You shall make the cherubim on its two ends of one piece with the mercy seat.

  3. The cherubim shall spread out their wings upward, covering the mercy seat with their wings, with their faces toward one another. The faces of the cherubim shall be toward the mercy seat.

  4. Out of its midst came the likeness of four living creatures. This was their appearance: they had the likeness of a man.

  5. Everyone had four faces, and each one of them had four wings.

  6. Their feet were straight feet; and the sole of their feet was like the sole of a calf’s foot; and they sparkled like burnished brass.

  7. They had the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides; and the four of them had their faces and their wings thus:

  8. their wings were joined one to another; they didn’t turn when they went; each one went straight forward.

  9. As for the likeness of their faces, they had the face of a man; and the four of them had the face of a lion on the right side; and the four of them had the face of an ox on the left side; the four of them also had the face of an eagle.

  10. Such were their faces. Their wings were spread out above. Two wings of each one touched another, and two covered their bodies.

  11. Above the expanse that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone; and on the likeness of the throne was a likeness as the appearance of a man on it above.

  12. I saw as it were glowing metal, as the appearance of fire within it all around, from the appearance of his waist and upward; and from the appearance of his waist and downward I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and there was brightness around him.

  13. As the appearance of the rainbow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness all around. This was the appearance of the likeness of the LORD’s glory. When I saw it, I fell on my face, and I heard a voice of one that spoke.

  14. I looked, and behold, four wheels beside the cherubim, one wheel beside one cherub, and another wheel beside another cherub; and the appearance of the wheels was like a beryl stone.

  15. As for their appearance, the four of them had one likeness, like a wheel within a wheel.

  16. When they went, they went in their four directions: they didn’t turn as they went, but to the place where the head looked they followed it; they didn’t turn as they went.

  17. It was made with cherubim and palm trees; and a palm tree was between cherub and cherub, and every cherub had two faces;

  18. so that there was the face of a man toward the palm tree on the one side, and the face of a young lion toward the palm tree on the other side. It was made like this through all the house all around:

  19. from the ground to above the door were cherubim and palm trees made: thus was the wall of the temple.