Ezekiel 9:7 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ 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. ”

Ezekiel 9:7 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Defile the house - By filling the temple and its courts with the bodies of the slain. See Numbers 19:11 .
Ezekiel 9:7 - 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 9:7 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Here God. repeats what he had formerly touched upon shortly and obscurely, namely, that the Jews trusted in vain in the visible temple, because already he had ceased to dwell there, as we shall...
Ezekiel 9:7 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

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. Defile the house - A dreadful sentence, Let it be polluted, I will...
Ezekiel 9:7 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Defile the house— God hereby declares that he will no longer own the temple for the place of his residence, as having been polluted with idolatry; and therefore he delivers up both the inner and ou...
Ezekiel 9:7 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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. No JFB commentary on this verse.
Ezekiel 9:7 - 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 9:7 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Defile the house. — The utmost possible pollution under the Mosaic economy was the touch of a dead body. (See Numbers 19:11 ; 1 Kings 13:2 ; 2 Kings 23:16 .) It might be thought that the Temple...
Ezekiel 9:7 - 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 9:7 - 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 9:7 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

I beseech the Reader to remark with me, the order which the Lord hath here observed, in his visitations. He first secures his people, before he executes judgment on the ungodly. He first marks, and g...
Ezekiel 9:7 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And he said unto them, defile the house ,.... The temple; do not be afraid of slaying any person in it, for fear of defiling it; they have defiled it with their abominations, and now do you defile i...
Ezekiel 9:7 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

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. Ver. 7. Defile the house. ] Once hallowed by myself, but now ab...
Ezekiel 9:7 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

To the others he said, Go ye after him and smite That is, cut off and destroy all that are either guilty of, or accessory to the abominations of Jerusalem, and even all that do not sigh and cry for...
Ezekiel 9:7 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Righteous Distinguished; The Prophet's Intercession. B. C. 593. 5 And to the other...
Ezekiel 9:7 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Defile the house; regard not the holiness of the temple: idolaters, whom you are to slay, have defiled it with the blood of idols, sacrifices, do you defile it with the blood of the idolatrous sacr...
Ezekiel 9:7 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘And he said to them, “Defile the house and fill the courts with the slain. Go forth.” And they went forth and smote in the city.' The house was to be deliberately defiled (compare Numbers 19:11 ;...
Ezekiel 9:7 - 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 9:7 - 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 9:7 - 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 9:7 - 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 9:7 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Chronicles 36:17 ; Ezekiel 7:20-22 ; Lamentations 2:4-7 ; Luke 13:1 ; Psalms 79:1-3
Ezekiel 9:7 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

And slew — The slaughter also was in vision.

Ezekiel 9:7 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Ezekiel 9:7 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 9:7 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 9:7 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Ezekiel 9:7 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Ezekiel 9:7 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Ezekiel 9:7 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 9:7 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Ezekiel 9:7 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Ezekiel 9:7 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Ezekiel 9:7 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Ezekiel 9:7 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Ezekiel 9:7 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Ezekiel 9:7 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ezekiel 9:7 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Ezekiel 9:7 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Ezekiel 9:7 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 9:7 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Ezekiel 9:7 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ezekiel 9:7 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Ezekiel 9:7 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Ezekiel 9:7 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ezekiel 9:7 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes