Ezekiel Chapter 9 verse 7 Holy Bible
And he said unto them, Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain: go ye forth. And they went forth, and smote in the city.
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And he said to them, Make the house unclean, make the open places full of dead: go forward and send destruction on the town.
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And he said unto them, Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain: go forth. And they went forth, and smote 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.
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He said to them, Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain: go you forth. They went forth, and struck in the city.
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And they begin among the aged men who `are' before the house, and He saith unto them, `Defile the house, and fill the courts with the wounded, go forth.' And they have gone forth and have smitten in the city.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 7. - Defile the house, etc. What Ezekiel saw in vision was, we may well believe, fulfilled literally when the city was taken by the Chaldeans. The pollution of the temple by the bleeding corpses of the idolatrous worshippers was a fitting retribution for the worship with which they had polluted it (comp. Ezekiel 6:13).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(7) Defile the house.--The utmost possible pollution under the Mosaic economy was the touch of a dead body. (See Numbers 19:11; 1Kings 13:2; 2Kings 23:16.) It might be thought that the Temple would be spared this defilement; but not only must the execution of justice override all technicalities, as at the execution of Joab (1Kings 2:28-31), but in this case the very defilement itself was a part of the judgment, since God was about to forsake His sanctuary, and give over even this to the desolations of the heathen. From the Temple the destroying angels passed out into the city.