Ezekiel 9:4 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

Ezekiel 9:4 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

mercy precedes judgment. So in the case of Sodom Genesis 19 , and in the last day Luke 21:18 , Luke 21:28 ; Revelation 7:1 . This accords with the eschatological character of the predictions in...

Ezekiel 9:4 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

And the LORD said to him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that (f) sigh and that cry for all the abominations that are d...

Ezekiel 9:4 - 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...

Ezekiel 9:4 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

the LORD. Hebrew. Jehovah. App-4. set. mark. Compare Revelation 7:3 ; Revelation 9:4 ; Revelation 13:16 ; Revelation 13:17 ; Revelation 20:4 . mark. Hebrew Occurs elsewhere only in Jo...

Ezekiel 9:4 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 9:4 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 1099 DUTY AND BENEFIT OF MOURNING FOR SIN Ezekiel 9:4 . And the Lord said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads...

Ezekiel 9:4 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And the LORD said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done...

Ezekiel 9:4 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Set a mark— This expression alludes to the ancient custom of marking servants in the forehead, to distinguish what they were, and to whom they belonged. See Bishop Newton on Revelation 7:3 . The r...

Ezekiel 9:4 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And the LORD said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be...

Ezekiel 9:4 - 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 l...

Ezekiel 9:4 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Set a mark upon the foreheads. — The word for mark is literally a Tau, the last letter of the Hebrew alphabet. This, in many of the ancient alphabets, and especially in that in use among the Hebr...

Ezekiel 9:4 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

YOUR HOUSE IS LEFT UNTO YOU DESOLATE Ezekiel 8:1-18 ; Ezekiel 9:1-11 ; Ezekiel 10:1-22 ; Ezekiel 11:1-25 ONE of the most instructive phases of religious belief among the Israelites of the se...

Ezekiel 9:4 - 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 ne...

Ezekiel 9:4 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

There is somewhat most solemnly affecting in what is here said of the glory of the God of Israel, being gone up. Probably, the expression is in allusion to the withdrawing of the Shechinah, that is,...

Ezekiel 9:4 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

MARKED MEN! ‘And the Lord said unto him: Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominati...

Ezekiel 9:4 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And the Lord said unto him ,.... This shows that a divine Person is meant by the glory of the God of Israel: go through the midst of the city ; that is, as it is next explained, through the mids...

Ezekiel 9:4 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And the LORD said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done...

Ezekiel 9:4 - 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...

Ezekiel 9:4 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Preparations to Destroy Jerusalem; The Righteous Marked for Salvation. B. C.  593.       1 He cried a...

Ezekiel 9:4 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

The Lord said, spake from the midst of that glory, Ezekiel 9:3 . Unto him, the man clothed in linen, i.e. to Christ. Go through; pass through as men use to go who keep an even, steady pace....

Ezekiel 9:4 - 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 sid...

Ezekiel 9:4 - 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 9:1-7 ) EXEGETICAL NOTES.—This chapter is closely connected with the preceding, and...

Ezekiel 9:4 - Scofield Reference Notes

set a mark ( See Scofield) - ( Jeremiah 15:21 ).

Ezekiel 9:4 - 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...

Ezekiel 9:4 - The Biblical Illustrator

Set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh. The protected people I. God has a people of His own in a world of sinners, who feel for His honour, and desire to sustain His authority. Thes...

Ezekiel 9:4 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Ezekiel 9:1 He cried, etc. The voice comes, as before, from the human form, seen as a theophany, in the midst of the Divine glory. Cause them that have charge over the city....

Ezekiel 9:4 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

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 fulfill...

Ezekiel 9:4 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Corinthians 1:22 ; 2 Corinthians 12:21 ; 2 Kings 22:13 ; 2 Kings 22:19 ; 2 Kings 22:20 ; 2 Peter 2:8 ; 2 Peter 2:9 ; 2 Timothy 2:19 ; Ephesians 4:30 ; Exodus 12:13 ; Exodus 12:7 ; Ezeki...

Ezekiel 9:4 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

That sigh — Out of grief for other mens sins and sorrows. Cry — Who dare openly bewail the abominations of this wicked city, and so bear their testimony against it.