# Ezekiel 1:15

> When I looked at the living creatures, I saw a wheel on the ground beside each creature with its four faces.

— Ezekiel 1:15, Berean Standard Bible

## When

- 593 BC (dated by the text itself)
- Date source: Ezekiel 1:1-2 dates itself by the fifth year of the exile of King Jehoiachin, which the Babylonian Chronicle puts in 597 BC.

## Who ruled

- **Nebuchadnezzar II**, king of Babylon, 605-562 BC · Source: Babylonian Chronicles (ABC 5), which date the Battle of Carchemish and the first campaign against Judah; Berossus, cited by Josephus in Against Apion I

## See also

- Ezekiel 10:9 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/ezekiel/10/9
- Daniel 7:9 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/daniel/7/9
- Ezekiel 1:6 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/ezekiel/1/6
- Ezekiel 1:19-21 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/ezekiel/1/19
- Revelation 4:7 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/revelation/4/7

Cross-references: OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0.

## This document

- Canonical: https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/ezekiel/1/15
- Whole chapter: https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/ezekiel/1
- License: Scripture: Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain. Source: Scriptoria (scriptoria.digital).