Ezekiel 1:14

The living beings moved backward and forward as quickly as flashes of lightning. ¹ 

Ps 147:15; Da 9:21; Zec 2:3,4; Zec 4:10; Mt 24:27,31; Mr 13:27

¹ tc The LXX omits v. 14 and may well be correct. The verse may be a later explanatory gloss of the end of v. 13 which was copied into the main text. See M. Greenberg, Ezekiel (AB), 1:46.

tn Lit., “like the appearance of lightning.” The Hebrew term translated “lightning” occurs only here in the OT. In postbiblical Hebrew the term refers to a lightning flash.