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Ezekiel 9:3-7

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 remnant has been a feature of chs. Ezekiel 4:1. Here, the mark is the Hebrew letter taw. In the script of Ezekiel’s day it would be an X. Ancient Christian interpretation saw this symbol as an anticipation of the cross.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Ezekiel 9:3. _AND HE CALLED TO THE MAN_] The person here who called was that who sat on the chariot of the Divine glory. See Ezekiel 1:26....

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    CHERUB - The singular is put collectively for the “cherubim,” which were upon the mercy-seat of the ark in the holy of holies, the proper seat of the glory of the Lord in the midst of Israel. God is r...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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;...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    THE GLORY, &c. See note on Ezekiel 1:28. THE GOD OF ISRAEL. See note on Isaiah 29:23. GOD. Hebrew. _Elohin,_ App-4. CHERUB. Singular, as in Ezekiel 1:20. HE: or, It. the hou

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _from the cherub_ See at the end of ch. 10....

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    AND THE GLORY, &C.— Meaning the glory which Ezekiel saw in the preceding chapter; that is to say, not only the chariot of glory, with the wheels and the cherubim, but also the Man sitting in the chari...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

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  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THE GLORY... TO THE THRESHOLD. — In Ezekiel 8:4 the prophet had seen the same vision as he has described in Ezekiel 1 standing at the entrance of the court of the priests, and there it still remained....

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וּ כְבֹ֣וד ׀ אֱלֹהֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל נַעֲלָה֙ מֵ...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

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  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _House; to the holy place, shewing that he abondoned those in the temple. (Calmet)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

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  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    Now the Prophet shows why the angel was added to the Chaldeans, namely, to put a bridle on them, lest they should rage promiscuously and without selection against the elect and the reprobate. This is...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

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  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

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  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And the glory of the God of Israel was gone up from the cherub, whereupon he was, to the threshold of the house. And he called to the man clothed with linen, which [had] the writer's inkhorn by his si...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _And the glory of God was gone to the threshold of the house _ Namely, that glorious symbol of the divine presence which had been wont to appear between the cherubim upon the mercy-seat, was departed...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And the glory of the God of Israel, which is evidently thought of as the cloud in which he revealed Himself in His Temple, WAS GONE UP FROM THE CHERUB WHEREUPON HE WAS, TO THE THRESHOLD OF THE HOUSE,...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    THE GLORY; either a glorious brightness, such as some times appeared above the cherubims in the most, holy place, or the glorious God of Israel, who is the Lord that speaks, EZEKIEL 9:4, or that glory...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Ezekiel 9:3 glory H3519 God H430 Israel H3478 up H5927 (H8738) cherub H3742 threshold H4670 temple H1004 called...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘And the glory of the God of Israel had gone up from the cherub, on which it was, to the threshold of the house. And he called to the man clothed in linen, who had the writer's kit hanging at his side...

  • Scofield's Bible Commentary

    WAS GONE It is noteworthy that to Ezekiel the priest was given the vision of the glory of the Lord (1) departing from the Cherubim to the threshold of the temple (Ezekiel 9:3); (Ezekiel 10:4). (2)...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

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  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    (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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

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  • The Typology of Scripture by Patrick Fairbairn

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Ezekiel 10:4; Ezekiel 11:22; Ezekiel 11:23; Ezekiel 3:23; Ezekiel 43

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    The glory — The glorious brightness, such as sometimes appeared above the cherubim in the most holy place. Gone up — Departing from the place he had so long dwelt in. He was — Wont to sit and appear....

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