Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Ezekiel 9:5
The other executioners were to follow the footsteps of the seventh man, and slay without discrimination all not marked by him.
The other executioners were to follow the footsteps of the seventh man, and slay without discrimination all not marked by him.
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...
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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 to the others he said in mine hearing, Go ye after him through the city, and smite: let not your eye spare, neither have ye pity: TO THE OTHERS HE SAID - to the six officers of judgment ()....
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...
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
GO YE AFTER HIM. — No interval is allowed. Here, as in the corresponding visions in Revelation referred to above, judgment waits only until those whom mercy will spare have been protected. (Comp. the...
וּ לְ אֵ֨לֶּה֙ אָמַ֣ר בְּ אָזְנַ֔י עִבְר֥וּ
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...
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...
Now the Prophet adds, that the Chaldeans were sent to destroy the city and its inhabitants, but the order must be observed, because they are ordered to go _behind the angel. _The grace of God therefor...
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, TO THE OTHERS HE SAID IN MINE HEARING,.... To the other six men that had the slaughter weapons in their hands: GO YE AFTER HIM THROUGH THE CITY; that is, after the man clothed with linen; for he...
And to the others he said in mine hearing, Go ye after him through the city, and smite: let not your eye spare, neither have ye pity: Ver. 5. _Go ye after him._] Go not till he hath marked the mourne...
Eze. 9:5, 6. It is a great evidence that infants are guilty of sin [Query: Rather involved in the guilt and penalty of the Fall? - G], that when these destroying angels were sent on that errand to exe...
_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 to the others He said in mine hearing, Go ye after him through the city and smite, in a terrible judgment of extermination; LET NOT YOUR EYE SPARE, as it might when seeing pitiful sights or hands...
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...
MINE HEARING: _ Heb._ mine ears...
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...
THE OTHERS; the six slaughtermen. HE SAID; the God of glory, or Christ, who appeared in great glory. IN MY HEARING; a note of certainty of the thing. GO YE AFTER HIM; linger not ere you set forward ag...
Ezekiel 9:5 others H428 said H559 (H8804) hearing H241 Go H5674 (H8798) after H310 city H5892 kill...
‘And to the others he said in my hearing, “Go through the city after him, and smite. Do not let your eye spare, nor have pity. Slay utterly (literally ‘slay to destruction') the old man, the young man...
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...
_Set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh._ THE PROTECTED PEOPLE I. God has a people of His own in a world of sinners, who feel for His honour, and desire to sustain His authority. These ar...
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...
1 Kings 18:40; 1 Samuel 9:15; Deuteronomy 32:39; Exodus 32:27;...
The others — The six slaughter — men....