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Ezekiel 9:1

Ezekiel 9:1

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public Domain

He cried, etc. The voice comes, as before, from the human form, seen as a theophany, in the midst of the Divine glory. Cause them that have charge over the city. The noun is an abstract plural, commonly rendered "visitation" (; , and elsewhere).

Here, however, it clearly stands for persons (just as we use "the watch" for "the watchmen"), and is so used in ; 2 Kings 11:18 (comp. ). The persons addressed are called "men," but they are clearly thought of as superhuman; like the angels who came to Sodom (); like the angel with the drawn sword in 2 Samuel 24:16; 1 Chronicles 21:16.

His destroying weapon. The word clearly implies something different from a sword, but corresponds in its vagueness to the Hebrew. In 1 Chronicles 21:2 the Hebrew for "slaughter weapon" implies an instrument for crashing into fragments, probably an axe or mace.

A cognate word in is translated "battle axe," and the LXX. gives that meaning here, as also does the margin of the Revised Version.

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