Verses on the animals that represent the 4 faces of the Cherubim / throne of god
Eagle:
1. 2 Samuel 1:23
23 Saul and Jonathan— in life they were loved and admired, and in death, they were not parted. They were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions.
2. Deuteronomy 28:49
49 The LORD will bring a nation against you from far away, from the ends of the earth, like an eagle swooping down, a nation whose language you will not understand,
3. Exodus 19:4
4 ‘You yourselves have seen what I did to Egypt, and how I carried you on eagles’ wings and brought you to myself.
4. Hosea 8:1
1 “Put the trumpet to your lips! An eagle is over the house of the LORD because the people have broken my covenant and rebelled against my law.
5. Isaiah 40:31
31 but those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.
Lion:
1. Peter 5:8
8 Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.
2. Timothy 4:17
17 But the Lord stood at my side and gave me strength so that through me the message might be fully proclaimed and all the Gentiles might hear it. And I was delivered from the lion’s mouth.
3. Hebrews 11:33
33 who through faith conquered kingdoms, administered justice, and gained what was promised; who shut the mouths of lions,
4. Revelation 4:7
7 The first living creature was like a lion, the second was like an ox, the third had a face like a man, the fourth was like a flying eagle.
5. Revelation 9:8
8 Their hair was like women’s hair, and their teeth were like lions’ teeth.
6. Revelation 5:5
5 And one of the elders said to me, “Weep no more; behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has conquered so that he can open the scroll and its seven seals.”
7. Genesis 49:9-10
“Judah is a lion’s whelp; From the prey, my son, you have gone up.
He couches, he lies down as a lion, And as a lion, who dares rouse him up? “The scepter shall not depart from Judah,
Nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, Until Shiloh comes, And to him shall be the obedience of the peoples.
Ox:
1. Proverbs 14:4
Where no oxen are, the manger is clean, But much revenue comes by the strength of the ox.
2. 1 Timothy 5:18
For the Scripture says, “You shall not muzzle the ox while he is threshing,” and “The laborer is worthy of his wages.”
3. Numbers 7:3
When they brought their offering before the Lord, six covered carts and twelve oxen, a cart for every two of the leaders and an ox for each one, then they presented them before the tabernacle.
4. Deuteronomy 14:4
These are the animals which you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat,
5. Exodus 20:24
You shall make an altar of earth for Me, and you shall sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and your oxen; in every place where I cause My name to be remembered, I will come to you and bless you.
Man:
1. Psalm 11:4
The Lord is in His holy temple; the Lord’s throne is in heaven; His eyes behold, His eyelids test the sons of men.
2. Matthew 9:6
But so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins”—then He *said to the paralytic, “Get up, pick up your bed and go home.”
3. Mark 14:62
And Jesus said, “I am, and you shall see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of Power, and coming with the clouds of heaven.”
4. Isaiah 6:1
In the year of King Uzziah’s death, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, lofty and exalted, with the train of His robe filling the temple.
5. Daniel 7:13-14
“I kept looking in the night visions, And behold, with the clouds of heaven
One like a Son of Man was coming, And He came up to the Ancient of Days
And was presented before Him. “And to Him was given dominion, Glory and a kingdom, That all the peoples, nations and men of every language
Might serve Him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion
Which will not pass away; And His kingdom is one
Which will not be destroyed.
Wheel within a Wheel:
1. Ezekiel 1:16
The appearance of the wheels and their workmanship was like sparkling beryl, and all four of them had the same form, their appearance, and workmanship being as if one wheel were within another.
2. Exodus 14:25
Verse Concepts
He caused their chariot wheels to swerve, and He made them drive with difficulty; so the Egyptians said, “Let us flee from Israel, for the Lord is fighting for them against the Egyptians.”
3. Nahum 3:2
The noise of the whip, The noise of the rattling of the wheel, Galloping horses
And bounding chariots!
4. 2 Kings 7:6
For the Lord had caused the army of the Arameans to hear a sound of chariots and a sound of horses, even the sound of a great army, so that they said to one another, “Behold, the king of Israel has hired against us the kings of the Hittites and the kings of the Egyptians, to come upon us.”
5. Jeremiah 47:3
“Because of the noise of the galloping hooves of his stallions,
The tumult of his chariots, and the rumbling of his wheels,
The fathers have not turned back for their children,
Because of the limpness of their hands