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Ezekiel 9 :: New King James Version (NKJV)

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The Wicked Are Slain
Vision of the Slaughter of the Guilty
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:1 - Then He called out in my hearing with a loud voice, saying, “Let those who have charge over the city draw near, each with a deadly weapon in his hand.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:2 - And suddenly six men came from the direction of the upper gate, which faces north, each with his battle-ax in his hand. One man among them was clothed with linen and had a writer’s inkhorn at his side. They went in and stood beside the bronze altar.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:3 - Now the glory of the God of Israel had gone up from the cherub, where it had been, to the threshold of the temple.[fn] And He called to the man clothed with linen, who had the writer’s inkhorn at his side;
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:4 - and the LORD said to him, “Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and put a mark on the foreheads of the men who sigh and cry over all the abominations that are done within it.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:5 - To the others He said in my hearing, “Go after him through the city and kill; do not let your eye spare, nor have any pity.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:6 - “Utterly slay old and young men, maidens and little children and women; but do not come near anyone on whom is the mark; and begin at My sanctuary.” So they began with the elders who were before the temple.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:7 - Then He said to them, “Defile the temple, and fill the courts with the slain. Go out!” And they went out and killed in the city.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:8 - So it was, that while they were killing them, I was left alone; and I fell on my face and cried out, and said, “Ah, Lord GOD! Will You destroy all the remnant of Israel in pouring out Your fury on Jerusalem?”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:9 - Then He said to me, “The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great, and the land is full of bloodshed, and the city full of perversity; for they say, ‘The LORD has forsaken the land, and the LORD does not see!’
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:10 - “And as for Me also, My eye will neither spare, nor will I have pity, but I will recompense their deeds on their own head.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:11 - Just then, the man clothed with linen, who had the inkhorn at his side, reported back and said, “I have done as You commanded me.”
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Literally house
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