Ezekiel 9:2 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

behold. Figure of speech Asterismos. App-6.

six men. Evidently supernatural. Angels are often called "men".

men. Heb, plural of enosh. App-14.

man. Hebrew. 'ish. App-14.

weapon. A various reading called Sevir, with some codices, one early printed edition, and Syriac, reads weapons (plural)

a writer's inkhorn. See Eze 9:41. Seen in use in the East to this day.

Ezekiel 9:2

2 And, behold, six men came from the way of the higher gate, which lietha toward the north, and every man a slaughter weapon in his hand; and one man among them was clothed with linen, with a writer's inkhorn by his side: and they went in, and stood beside the brasen altar.