Ezekiel 9:7
What does Ezekiel 9:7 mean?
A plain-English look at Ezekiel 9:7 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000And he said unto them, Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain: go ye forth. And they went forth, and smote in the city.
KJV
King James Version · 1611And 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.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901And he said unto them, Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain: go ye forth. And they went forth, and smote in the city.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949And he said to them, Make the house unclean, make the open places full of dead: go forward and send destruction on the town.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862And they begin among the aged men who <FI>are<Fi> before the house, and He saith unto them, `Defile the house, and fill the courts with the wounded, go forth.' And they have gone forth and have smitten in the city.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752And he said to them: Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain: go ye forth. And they went forth, and slew them that were in the city.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890And he said unto them, Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain: go forth. And they went forth, and smote in the city.
Context
v.6slay utterly the old man, the young man and the virgin, and little children and women; but come not near any man upon whom is the mark: and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the old men that were before the house.
v.7This passage
v.8And it came to pass, while they were smiting, and I was left, that I fell upon my face, and cried, and said, Ah Lord Jehovah! wilt thou destroy all the residue of Israel in thy pouring out of thy wrath upon Jerusalem?
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Psalms 79:1
O God, the nations are come into thine inheritance; Thy holy temple have they defiled; They have laid Jerusalem in heaps.
- Ezekiel 7:20
As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty; but they made the images of their abominations and their detestable things therein: therefore have I made it unto them as an unclean thing.
- 2 Chronicles 36:17
Therefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldeans, who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion upon young man or virgin, old man or hoary-headed: he gave them all into his hand.
- Luke 13:1
Now there were some present at that very season who told him of the Galilæans, whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices.
- Lamentations 2:4
He hath bent his bow like an enemy, he hath stood with his right hand as an adversary, And hath slain all that were pleasant to the eye: In the tent of the daughter of Zion he hath poured out his wrath like fire.
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