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God’s Messengers Punish Jerusalem

Then God shouted to the leaders in charge of punishing the city. Each leader had his own destructive weapon in his hand.[a] Then I saw six men walking on the road from the upper gate. This gate is on the north side. Each man had his own deadly weapon in his hand. One of the men wore linen clothes.[b] He wore a scribe’s pen and ink set[c] at his waist. Those men went to the bronze altar in the Temple and stood there.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 9:1 Each … hand In Hebrew this is like Ezek. 8:11.
  2. Ezekiel 9:2 linen clothes Priests usually wore these clothes.
  3. Ezekiel 9:2 scribe’s pen and ink set A scribe was a person who copied official documents and counted supplies and things. Scribes often carried a small board with dry ink in it and a pen. They could put water on the ink and then write with it. Also in verse 11.

Judgment on the Idolaters

Then I heard him call out in a loud voice, “Bring near those who are appointed to execute judgment on the city, each with a weapon in his hand.” And I saw six men coming from the direction of the upper gate, which faces north, each with a deadly weapon in his hand. With them was a man clothed in linen(A) who had a writing kit at his side. They came in and stood beside the bronze altar.

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