Originally Posted by Mike555

Hi PastorALly. The only information I have on that is from 'The Bible Knowledge Commentary' from Dallas Theological Seminary which has the following on Ezekiel 10:14.
10:14 Ezekiel then described the faces of the cherubim a second time (see comments on 1:10). However, an apparent discrepancy exists between these two descriptions. In chapter 1 the cherubim had the faces of a man, a lion, an eagle, and an ox; but in chapter 10 they had the faces of a cherub . . . a man . . . a lion, and an eagle. Some have suggested that a later scribe mistakenly copied "a cherub" in place of "face of an ox." A second view is that the face of an ox was, in fact, the normal understanding of the face of a cherub. In Akkadian literature the kuribu (cognate of "cherub" appear to have nonhuman faces. [The Bible Knowledge Commentary, Old Testament, An Exposition of the Scriptures By Dallas Seminary Faculty, p. 1246] And then looking at the commentaries in the Biblehub website - Ezekiel 10:14 Commentaries: And each one had four faces. The first face was the face of a cherub, the second face was the face of a man, the third the face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle.

John Gill, and the Pulpit Commentary both are of the opinion that the face of a cherub is that of an ox.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary disagrees and says,14. cherub—but in Eze 1:10 it is an ox. The chief of the four cherubic forms was not the ox, but man. Therefore "cherub" cannot be synonymous with "ox." Probably Ezekiel, standing in front of one of the cherubim (namely, that which handed the coals to the man in linen), saw of him, not merely the ox-form, but the whole fourfold form, and therefore calls him simply "cherub"; whereas of the other three, having only a side view, he specifies the form of each which met his eye [Fairbairn]. As to the likelihood of the lower animals sharing in "the restoration of all things," see Isa 11:6; 65:25; Ro 8:20, 21; this accords with the animal forms combined with the human to typify redeemed man.
In Studylight.org, the Coffman Commentary offers the following.
Ezekiel 10:9-12 is nearly identical with Ezekiel 1:15-18; and this writer cannot visualize any consistent apparatus that fits the vision. Wheels that are whirling, but do not turn as they go, and that go in four directions somehow fail to form any clear picture. The complex, complicated vision is here changed in the particular of so many eyes so widely distributed, and "the face of the cherub," is apparently substituted for the "face of an ox" in Ezekiel 1. Perhaps we are not supposed to be able thoroughly to understand it. Dummelow is the only author we have studied who offered an adequate explanation of why the face of "the cherub" is not referred to as the "face of an ox." "The whole vision was about to move Eastward; and from where Ezekiel stood, the face of the cherub on the east side was that of an ox (as in chapter 1); but it is here called "the face of the cherub, because that was the direction in which the vision would move, and so might be called `the cherub.'"[11] Ezekiel 10:1 - Coffman's Commentaries on the Bible - Commentaries - StudyLight.org The idea being expressed by Dummelow according to Coffman is that the ''ox face" was the face of the cherub because of the eastward projection.


The Preceptaustin website - Ezekiel Commentaries has a number of other commentaries addressing Ezekiel 10:14 which I haven't checked but you may wish to.

There seems to be no unanimous consensus on the reason for the differences in the descriptions.

I hope this provides some help.

Mike