Commentary Critical and Explanatory
Ezekiel 9:7
And he said unto them, Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain: go ye forth. And they went forth, and slew in the city.
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And he said unto them, Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain: go ye forth. And they went forth, and slew in the city.
No JFB commentary on this verse.
Verse Ezekiel 9:7. _DEFILE THE HOUSE_] A dreadful sentence, Let it be polluted, I will no more dwell in it; I now utterly forsake it....
DEFILE THE HOUSE - By filling the temple and its courts with the bodies of the slain. See Numbers 19:11....
Ezekiel 9:1. The six men mentioned are angels, into whose hands the city is given. Angels are used in judgments past and future. (See Matthew 13:41; Matthew 16:27;...
EZEKIEL 9. THE PITILESS SLAUGHTER OF THE SINNERS. The doom has been abundantly justified; now it comes, and in bloody form. In obedience to a ringing summons, seven angels come forth to execute it six...
_Defile the house_ The "house" embraces the temple house and its precincts, including the courts. The presence of dead in the courts defiled the whole....
DEFILE THE HOUSE— God hereby declares that he will no longer own the temple for the place of his residence, as having been polluted with idolatry; and therefore he delivers up both the inner and outer...
II. DESTRUCTION BY THE LORD 9:1-10:22 The visions which are recorded in Chapter s 9 and 10 follow logically the terrible indictment of the previous chapter. A fourfold development is evident in the vi...
THE SLAUGHTER OF THE IDOLATERS IN JERUSALEM The voice which has been speaking to Ezekiel now summons six supernatural beings armed with weapons of slaughter. They are attended by a seventh robed like...
DEFILE] The presence of corpses would pollute the sanctuary....
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DEFILE THE HOUSE. — The utmost possible pollution under the Mosaic economy was the touch of a dead body. (See Numbers 19:11; 1 Kings 13:2; 2 Kings 23:16.) It might be thought that the Temple would be...
וַ יֹּ֨אמֶר אֲלֵיהֶ֜ם טַמְּא֣וּ אֶת ־הַ בַּ֗י
YOUR HOUSE IS LEFT UNTO YOU DESOLATE Ezekiel 8:1; Ezekiel 9:1; Ezekiel 10:1; Ezekiel 11:1 ONE of the most instructive phases of reli
The next section of the message most remarkably reveals the fact of the divine discrimination in judgment. The prophet was charged in the vision to cause those who had charge over the city to draw nea...
_Defile. Septuagint, "you have defiled." I regard the place no longer. (Calmet)_...
I beseech the Reader to remark with me, the order which the Lord hath here observed, in his visitations. He first secures his people, before he executes judgment on the ungodly. He first marks, and ga...
Here God. repeats what he had formerly touched upon shortly and obscurely, namely, that the Jews trusted in vain in the visible temple, because already he had ceased to dwell there, as we shall afterw...
The glory of Jehovah visits the temple. He takes His place on the side that looked towards the city, and, after having shewn the prophet the heinous sins committed there, He gives command to execute t...
AND HE SAID UNTO THEM, DEFILE THE HOUSE,.... The temple; do not be afraid of slaying any person in it, for fear of defiling it; they have defiled it with their abominations, and now do you defile it w...
And he said unto them, Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain: go ye forth. And they went forth, and slew in the city. Ver. 7. _Defile the house._] Once hallowed by myself, but now abho...
_To the others he said, Go ye after him and smite_ That is, cut off and destroy all that are either guilty of, or accessory to the abominations of Jerusalem, and even all that do not sigh and cry for...
And He said unto them, Defile the house, namely, by this slaughter, AND FILL THE COURTS WITH THE SLAIN; GO YE FORTH. AND THEY WENT FORTH, after having performed their gruesome task in the entire Templ...
THE LORD'S JUDGMENT UPON THE GUILTY. The wickedness of the people described in chapter 8 is now followed by its proper punishment at the hand of the Lord in full agreement with the certain fulfillmen...
5-11 The slaughter must begin at the sanctuary, that all may see and know that the Lord hates sin most in those nearest to him. He who was appointed to protect, reported the matter. Christ is faithfu...
DEFILE THE HOUSE; regard not the holiness of the temple: idolaters, whom you are to slay, have defiled it with the blood of idols, sacrifices, do you defile it with the blood of the idolatrous sacrifi...
Ezekiel 9:7 said H559 (H8799) Defile H2930 (H8761) temple H1004 fill H4390 (H8761) courts H2691 slain...
‘And he said to them, “Defile the house and fill the courts with the slain. Go forth.” And they went forth and smote in the city.' The house was to be deliberately defiled (compare Numbers 19:11; 1 Ki...
CONTENTS: Visions of the slaying in Jerusalem. CHARACTERS: God, Ezekiel, Christ. CONCLUSION: Those who live in sin and hate to be reformed, despising God's Word, will perish in sin, and deserve not...
Ezekiel 9:2. _Behold, six men came from the way of the higher gate._ These were the high and mighty angels of God, who as guardians had charge of the city. The Chaldean army were but the secondary exe...
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 9:1 A team of seven angels carries out the execution of the unfaithful in Jerusalem at God’s command. Only one of them is assigned the job of protecting the faithful. The proph...
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 9:3 The seventh angel, in the role of scribe, puts A MARK ON THE FOREHEADS (v. Ezekiel 9:4) of those who are faithful to the Lord. Preserving a rem
(2.) THE JUDGMENT UPON THE INHABITANTS OF JERUSALEM (Chap. 9) 1. _The guards of the city and their work_ (Ezekiel 9:1) EXEGETICAL NOTES.—This chapter is closely connected with the preceding, and carri...
EXPOSITION EZEKIEL 9:1 HE CRIED, etc. The voice comes, as before, from the human form, seen as a theophany, in the midst of the Divine glory. CAUSE THEM THAT HAVE CHARGE OVER THE CITY. The noun is an...
CHAPTER 9. THE VISION OF THE SEALING. Ezekiel 9:1. _And he cried in mine ears with a loud voice, saying, Let the overseers of the city come near,_ (The language in this opening verse, as well as the...
He cried also in my ear with a loud voice, saying, Cause them that have the charge over the city to draw near, even every man with his destroying weapon in his hand (Ezekiel 9:1). So he heard Him now...
2 Chronicles 36:17; Ezekiel 7:20; Lamentations 2:4; Luke 13:1;...
And slew — The slaughter also was in vision....