Yehezkiel 1:14

1:14 The living beings moved backward and forward as quickly as flashes of lightning. ¹ 

Yehezkiel 8:5

8:5 He said to me, “Son of man, look up toward ²  the north.” So I looked up toward the north, and I noticed to the north of the altar gate was this statue of jealousy at the entrance.

[1:14]  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.

[1:14]  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.

[8:5]  ² tn Heb “lift your eyes (to) the way of.”