Ezekiel 9:1-7 New King James Version (NKJV)

The Wicked Are Slain

9 Then He called out in my hearing with a loud voice, saying, “Let those who have charge over the city draw near, each with a ^[a]deadly weapon in his hand.” ² And suddenly six men came from the direction of the upper gate, which faces north, each with his ^[b]battle-ax in his hand. One man among them was clothed with linen and had a writer’s inkhorn ^[c]at his side. They went in and stood beside the bronze altar.

³ Now the glory of the God of Israel had gone up from the cherub, where it had been, to the threshold of the ^[d]temple. And He called to the man clothed with linen, who had the writer’s inkhorn at his side; ⁴ and the Lord said to him, “Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and put a mark on the foreheads of the men who sigh and cry over all the abominations that are done within it.”

⁵ To the others He said in my ^[e]hearing, “Go after him through the city and kill;^[f] do not let your eye spare, nor have any pity. ⁶ Utterly^[g] slay old and young men, maidens and little children and women; but do not come near anyone on whom is the mark; and begin at My sanctuary.” So they began with the elders who were before the ^[h]temple. ⁷ Then He said to them, “Defile the ^[i]temple, and fill the courts with the slain. Go out!” And they went out and killed in the city.