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Ezekiel 9:7

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He said to them, “Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain. Go out!”
They went out, and struck in the city.

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Ezekiel 9:7 in other translations

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.

Ezekiel 9:7 · American Standard Version

Ezekiel 9:7 in context

  1. 5To the others he said in my hearing, “Go through the city after him, and strike. Don’t let your eye spare, neither have pity.
  2. 6Kill utterly the old man, the young man, the virgin, little children and women; but don’t come near any man on whom is the mark. Begin at my sanctuary.”
    Then they began at the old men who were before the house.
  3. 7He said to them, “Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain. Go out!”
    They went out, and struck in the city.
  4. 8While they were killing, and I was left, I fell on my face, and cried, and said, “Ah Lord Yahweh! Will you destroy all the residue of Israel in your pouring out of your wrath on Jerusalem?”
  5. 9Then he said to me, “The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perversion; for they say, ‘Yahweh has forsaken the land, and Yahweh doesn’t see.’