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 sacrificers; slay them where you find them, for there they sinned against me. Fill the courts with the slain; make a great slaughter, let every place be stained with their blood. There were the priests, the Levites, and the women's courts, and there will be found persons of a different character; but unless my mark be upon them, forbear none of them. Go ye forth; make haste, do not ye, for I do not, delay, nor will I. They went forth: here, as before, they show their ready obedience. Slew in the city: this slaughter was visional in the eye of the prophet, and a preface to the saddest butcheries Israel ever bled and groaned under.
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Ezekiel 9:7
7 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.