Ezekiel 9

1Then he cried in my ears with a loud voice, saying, “Cause those who are in charge of the city to draw near, each man with his destroying weapon in his hand.”Cross-references: Ex 12:23 · 2Ki 10:24 · 1Chr 21:15 · Isa 6:8 · Isa 10:6 · Ezek 43:6 · +3 more

2Behold, six men came from the way of the upper gate, which lies toward the north, every man with his slaughter weapon in his hand. One man in the middle of them was clothed in linen, with a writer’s inkhorn by his side. They went in, and stood beside the bronze altar.Cross-references: Ex 27:1 · Ex 40:29 · Lev 16:4 · 2Ki 15:35 · 2Chr 4:1 · 2Chr 27:3 · +8 more

3The glory of the God of Israel went up from the cherub, whereupon it was, to the threshold of the house; and he called to the man clothed in linen, who had the writer’s inkhorn by his side.Cross-references: Ezek 3:23 · Ezek 8:4 · Ezek 10:4 · Ezek 11:22 · Ezek 43:2

4Yahweh said to him, “Go through the middle of the city, through the middle of Jerusalem, and set a mark on the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry over all the abominations that are done within it.”Cross-references: Ex 12:7 · Ex 12:13 · 2Ki 22:13 · 2Ki 22:19 · Ps 119:53 · Ps 119:136 · +15 more

5To the others he said in my hearing, “Go through the city after him, and strike. Don’t let your eye spare, neither have pity.Cross-references: Ex 32:27 · Num 25:7 · Deut 32:39 · 1Sam 9:15 · 1Ki 18:40 · Isa 5:9 · +7 more

6Kill utterly the old man, the young man, the virgin, little children and women; but don’t come near any man on whom is the mark. Begin at my sanctuary.” Then they began at the old men who were before the house.Cross-references: Ex 12:23 · Num 31:15 · Deut 2:34 · Deut 3:6 · Josh 2:18 · Josh 6:17 · +12 more

7He said to them, “Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain. Go out!” They went out, and struck in the city.Cross-references: 2Chr 36:17 · Ps 79:1 · Lam 2:4 · Ezek 7:20 · Luke 13:1

8While they were killing, and I was left, I fell on my face, and cried, and said, “Ah Lord Yahweh! Will you destroy all the residue of Israel in your pouring out of your wrath on Jerusalem?”Cross-references: Gen 18:23 · Num 14:5 · Num 16:4 · Num 16:21 · Num 16:45 · Deut 9:18 · +9 more

9Then he said to me, “The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perversion; for they say, ‘Yahweh has forsaken the land, and Yahweh doesn’t see.’Cross-references: Deut 31:29 · Deut 32:5 · Deut 32:15 · 2Ki 17:7 · 2Ki 21:16 · 2Ki 24:4 · +24 more

10As for me also, my eye won’t spare, neither will I have pity, but I will bring their way on their head.”Cross-references: Deut 32:41 · 2Chr 6:23 · Isa 65:6 · Ezek 5:11 · Ezek 7:4 · Ezek 7:8 · +8 more

11Behold, the man clothed in linen, who had the inkhorn by his side, reported the matter, saying, “I have done as you have commanded me.”Cross-references: Ps 103:20 · Isa 46:10 · Zech 1:10 · Zech 6:7 · Rev 16:2 · Rev 16:17