four

And concerning the pillars, the height of one pillar was eighteene cubites, and a fillet of twelue cubites did compasse it, and the thickenesse thereof was foure fingers: it was hollow.

1611 marginal noteHeb. threed

1611 marginal note1.King.7.15. 2.king.25.17. 2.chro.3.15.

In the three and twentith yeere of Nebuchad-rezzar, Nebuzar-adan the captaine of the guard, caried away captiue of the Iewes seuen hundreth fortie and fiue persons: all the persons were foure thousand and sixe hundreth.

Also out of the midst thereof came the likenesse of foure liuing creatures, and this was their appearance: they had the likenesse of a man.

And euery one had foure faces, and euery one had foure wings.

And they had the handes of a man vnder their wings on their foure sides, and they foure had their faces and their wings.

As for the likenesse of their faces, they foure had the face of a man, and the face of a lyon on the right side, and they foure had the face of an oxe on the left side: they foure also had the face of an eagle.

¶ Now as I behelde the liuing creatures: behold one wheele vpon the earth by the liuing creatures, with his foure faces.

The appearance of the wheeles, and their worke was like vnto the colour of a Berill: and they foure had one likenesse, and their appearance and their worke was as it were a wheele in the middle of a wheele.

When they went, they went vpon their foure sides: and they returned not when they went.

As for their rings, they were so high, that they were dreadful, and their rings were full of eyes round about them foure.

1611 marginal noteOr, strakes.