the other hand, when Elijah encountered God at Horeb (Sinai), God was not identified with storm or fire, but with “a still small voice” (1 Kings 19:12, KJV). In the middle of the storm’s flashing fire is something like gleaming amber or brass (cf. NEB); and in the middle of the amber, Ezekiel sees something like four living creatures (1:4–5). These creatures, called cherubim in 10:1, were associated at ancient Shiloh with the ark of the covenant (1 Sam. 4:4; cf. Exod. 25:18–22; 1 Kings 6:23–36;