Ezekiel 9:5 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

The others; the six slaughtermen. He said; the God of glory, or Christ, who appeared in great glory. In my hearing; a note of certainty of the thing. Go ye after him; linger not ere you set forward against the wicked, yet still go after, that you destroy none that are to be sealed; so also Revelation 7:3. Through the city; this order must be observed through the whole city, and through the whole execution. Smite; strike each with his weapon of perdition, so let every one fall by the sword, or famine, &c. Let not your eye spare; do all with severity, act the Chaldeans part indeed, and without remorse execute my just displeasure by your cruelty.

Ezekiel 9:5

5 And to the others he said in mine hearing,c Go ye after him through the city, and smite: let not your eye spare, neither have ye pity: