And to the other he said, that I might hear, Go ye after him through the city, and smite: let your eye spare none, neither have pity.

Destroy utterly the old, and the young, and the maids, and the children, and the women, but touch no man, upon whom is the [a]mark, and begin at my Sanctuary. Then they began at the [b]ancient men, which were before the house.

And he said unto them, Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain, then go forth: and they went out and slew them in the city.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 9:6 Thus in all his plagues the Lord preserveth his small number, which he marketh, as Exod. 12:12; Rev. 7:3, but the chief mark is the Spirit of adoption, wherewith the heart is sealed up to life everlasting.
  2. Ezekiel 9:6 Which were the chief occasion of all these evils, as Ezek. 8:11.

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