And — As soon as the command was given, the ministers of God's displeasure appear. Men — In appearance and vision they were men, and the prophet calls them as he saw them. The north — Insinuating whence their destruction should come. One man — Not a companion, but as one of authority over them. With linen — A garment proper to the priesthood. They — All the seven.
Verse Ezekiel 9:2. _STOOD BESIDE THE BRAZEN ALTAR._] To signify that the people against whom they had their commission were, for their crimes, to be sacrificed to the demands of Divine justice....
SIX MEN - angels of wrath - figurative of destruction. They come from the north, the quarter from which invading armies entered the holy land. These “six” angels, with the “one among them,” a superior...
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...
BEHOLD. Figure of speech Asterismos. App-6. SIX MEN. Evidently supernatural. Angels are often called "men". MEN. _Heb,_ plural _of enosh._ App-14. MAN. Hebrew. _'ish_. App-14. WEAPON. A various re...
_six men_ The symbolism represents the judgment of God as executed by supernatural agents, immediately under his command. These agents are called "men," having the human form to the eyes of the prophe...
CAUSE THEM THAT HAVE CHARGE, &C.— _Those who are the avengers of the city:_ the Chaldeans, whom God had appointed to besiege and destroy this city. Some understand it of _the angels,_ who have the cha...
INKHORN— That the easterns wore it suspended from the girdle, see Shaw's Travels, p. 293 fol. 227. 40. See commentary on Ezekiel 9:1...
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...
And, behold, six men came from the way of the higher gate, which lieth toward the north, and every man a slaughter weapon in his hand; and one man among them was clothed with linen, with a writer's i...
9:2 slaughter (d-24) Lit. 'dashing-in-pieces;' Jeremiah 51:20 , 'maul.' side; (e-46) Lit. 'on his loins.'...
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...
THE HIGHER (RV 'upper') GATE.. TOWARD THE NORTH] the northern gate of the inner court, as in Ezekiel 8:3; Ezekiel 8:5; Ezekiel 8:7. THE BRASEN ALTAR] made by Solomon ...
EZEKIEL: ‘THEY SHALL KNOW THAT I AM GOD’ THE *SIN OF JUDAH AND THE JUDGEMENT OF GOD EZEKIEL CHAPTER S 1 TO 24 _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 9 THE MAN WITH A WRITER’S CASE – EZEKIEL 9:1-4 V1 Then I
ONE MAN AMONG THEM WAS CLOTHED WITH LINEN. — He was _among_ them, but not of them. There were six with weapons, and this one without a weapon formed the seventh, thus making up the mystical number so...
וְ הִנֵּ֣ה שִׁשָּׁ֣ה אֲנָשִׁ֡ים בָּאִ֣ים ׀ מִ...
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...
And, behold, six (b) men came from the way of the higher gate, which lieth toward the (c) north, and every man a slaughter weapon in his hand; and one man among them [was] clothed with linen, with a w...
_Upper, leading to the court of the priests. These were six angels, representing the army coming from Babylon. The seventh was an angel of peace. (Calmet) --- God never abandoned his whole Church. (Wo...
I beseech the Reader, to pay the greatest attention to what is here said, and may God the Holy Ghost, be his Instructor. I should conceive, that by what is related of six persons, and one particularly...
Now the Prophet writes that God’s command was not vain or empty, because the effect appears directly by vision. Therefore six men offered themselves. Why again he names six, rather than more or fewer,...
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, BEHOLD, SIX MEN,.... Either angels the form of men; or the generals of Nebuchadnezzar's army, as Kimchi interprets it; whose names are, Nergalsharezer, Samgarnebo, Sarsechim, Rabsaris, Nergalshar...
_And, behold, six men came from the way of the higher gate, which lieth toward the north, and every man a slaughter weapon in his hand; and one man among them [was] clothed with linen, with a writer's...
_He cried also in mine ears_ Namely, the man whom he had seen upon the throne; _with a loud voice_ This denoted the terribleness of the judgments which were going to be inflicted. _Cause them that hav...
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...
And, behold, six men came from the way of the higher gate, the angels assuming the shape of men and coming down from the upper entrance of the temple, WHICH LIETH TOWARD THE NORTH, AND EVERY MAN A SLA...
WHICH LIETH: _ Heb._ which is turned A SLAUGHTER WEAPON: _ Heb._ a weapon of his breaking in pieces BY HIS SIDE: _ Heb._ upon his loins...
1-4 It is a great comfort to believers, that in the midst of destroyers and destructions, there is a Mediator, a great High Priest, who has an interest in heaven, and in whom saints on earth have an...
So soon as command was given out, these ministers of God's just displeasure appear ready to execute. SIX; that was the precise number, neither more nor fewer. MEN. In appearance and vision they were m...
Ezekiel 9:2 six H8337 men H582 came H935 (H8802) direction H1870 upper H5945 gate H8179 faces H6437 ...
‘And behold six men came from the way of the upper gate, which lies towards the north, every one with his weapon for destruction in his hand, and one man in the midst of them, clothed in linen, with a...
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...
_One man among them was clothed with linen._ CHRIST THE COMMANDER OF THE ANGELS 1. Elect Jews under the law were saved by the mediatorial work of Christ incarnate, as we are under the Gospel. Christ...
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...
(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 27:3; 2 Chronicles 4:1; 2 Kings 15:35; Exodus 27:1;...