Ezekiel 9:1

Then cried he in mine ears with a loud voice, saying, Draw near ye that have charge of the city,-even every man with his weapon of destruction in his hand.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

He cried also in mine ears with a loud voice, saying, Cause them that have charge over the city to draw near, even every man with his destroying weapon in his hand.

In Context

2And lo! six men coming in out of the way of the upper gate which looketh toward the north even every man with his destructive weapon in his hand, and one man in their midst clothed with linen, having a scribe’s ink holder by his side,—so they came in and stood beside the altar of bronze.

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Cross References

Exodus 12:23And Yahweh will pass along to plague the Egyptians, and when he beholdeth the blood upon the upper beam and upon the two door-posts, then will Yahweh pass over the entrance, and not suffer the destroyer to enter into your houses to inflict on you the plague.

1 Chronicles 21:15And God sent a messenger to Jerusalem, to lay it waste, but, as he was laying it waste, Yahweh looked, and relented concerning the calamity, and said unto the messenger who was laying waste, Enough! now, stay thy hand. And, the messenger of Yahweh, was standing by the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

Isaiah 10:6Against an irreligious nation, will I send him, Yea against the people with whom I am wroth, will I command him,—To capture spoil And lay hold on prey, And cause them to be trodden down as the mire of the lanes.

Ezekiel 43:6Then heard I one speaking unto me. out of the house,—and a man, there was standing beside me.

Revelation 1:10I came to be, in Spirit, in the Lord’s Day, and heard, behind me, a loud voice, as of a trumpet,

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 9:1

The prophet had, in vision, seen the wickedness that was committed at Jerusalem, in the foregoing chapter, and we may be sure that it was not represented to him worse than really it was; now here follows, of course, a representation of their ruin approaching; for when sin goes before judgments come next. Here is, I. Preparation made of instruments that were to be employed in the destruction of the city, ver. 1, 2 . II. The removal of the Shechinah from the cherubim to the threshold of the temple, ver. 3 . III.… Read the whole commentary →

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