(A)Utterly[a] slay old and young men, maidens and little children and women; but (B)do not come near anyone on whom is the mark; and (C)begin at My sanctuary.” (D)So they began with the elders who were before the [b]temple.

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  1. Ezekiel 9:6 Lit. Slay to destruction
  2. Ezekiel 9:6 Lit. house

They were commanded (A)not to harm (B)the grass of the earth, or any green thing, or any tree, but only those men who do not have (C)the seal of God on their foreheads.

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23 (A)For the Lord will pass through to strike the Egyptians; and when He sees the (B)blood on the [a]lintel and on the two doorposts, the Lord will pass over the door and (C)not allow (D)the destroyer to come into your houses to strike you.

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  1. Exodus 12:23 Crosspiece at top of door

19 Nevertheless (A)the solid foundation of God stands, having this seal: “The Lord (B)knows those who are His,” and, “Let everyone who names the name of [a]Christ depart from iniquity.”

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  1. 2 Timothy 2:19 NU, M the Lord

saying, (A)“Do not harm the earth, the sea, or the trees till we have sealed the servants of our God (B)on their foreheads.”

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29 For behold, (A)I begin to bring calamity on the city (B)which is called by My name, and should you be utterly unpunished? You shall not be unpunished, for (C)I will call for a sword on all the inhabitants of the earth,” says the Lord of hosts.’

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47 And (A)that servant who (B)knew his master’s will, and did not prepare himself or do according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes.

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17 (A)Therefore He brought against them the king of the Chaldeans, who (B)killed their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion on young man or virgin, on the aged or the weak; He gave them all into his hand.

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17 For the time has come (A)for judgment to begin at the house of God; and if it begins with us first, (B)what will be the end of those who do not obey the gospel of God? 18 Now

(C)“If the righteous one is scarcely saved,
Where will the ungodly and the sinner appear?”

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18 (A)unless, when we come into the land, you bind this line of scarlet cord in the window through which you let us down, (B)and unless you [a]bring your father, your mother, your brothers, and all your father’s household to your own home. 19 So it shall be that whoever goes outside the doors of your house into the street, his blood shall be on his own head, and we will be [b]guiltless. And whoever is with you in the house, (C)his [c]blood shall be on our head if a hand is laid on him.

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  1. Joshua 2:18 Lit. gather
  2. Joshua 2:19 free from obligation
  3. Joshua 2:19 guilt of bloodshed

17 Now the city shall be (A)doomed by the Lord to destruction, it and all who are in it. Only (B)Rahab the harlot shall live, she and all who are with her in the house, because (C)she hid the messengers that we sent. 18 And you, (D)by all means abstain from the accursed things, lest you become accursed when you take of the accursed things, and make the camp of Israel a curse, (E)and trouble it. 19 But all the silver and gold, and vessels of bronze and iron, are [a]consecrated to the Lord; they [b]shall come into the treasury of the Lord.”

20 So the people shouted when the priests blew the trumpets. And it happened when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that (F)the wall fell down flat. Then the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city. 21 And they (G)utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, young and old, ox and sheep and donkey, with the edge of the sword.

22 But Joshua had said to the two men who had spied out the country, “Go into the harlot’s house, and from there bring out the woman and all that she has, (H)as you swore to her.” 23 And the young men who had been spies went in and brought out Rahab, (I)her father, her mother, her brothers, and all that she had. So they brought out all her relatives and left them outside the camp of Israel. 24 But they burned the city and all that was in it with fire. Only the silver and gold, and the vessels of bronze and iron, they put into the treasury of the house of the Lord. 25 And Joshua spared Rahab the harlot, her father’s household, and all that she had. So (J)she dwells in Israel to this day, because she hid the messengers whom Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.

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  1. Joshua 6:19 set apart
  2. Joshua 6:19 shall go

Now go and (A)attack[a] Amalek, and (B)utterly destroy all that they have, and do not spare them. But kill both man and woman, infant and nursing child, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.’ ”

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  1. 1 Samuel 15:3 Lit. strike

34 We took all his cities at that time, and we (A)utterly destroyed the men, women, and little ones of every city; we left none remaining.

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15 And Moses said to them: “Have you kept (A)all the women alive? 16 Look, (B)these women caused the children of Israel, through the (C)counsel of Balaam, to trespass against the Lord in the incident of Peor, and (D)there was a plague among the congregation of the Lord. 17 Now therefore, (E)kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known a man intimately.

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These are the ones who were not defiled with women, (A)for they are virgins. These are the ones (B)who follow the Lamb wherever He goes. These (C)were [a]redeemed from among men, (D)being firstfruits to God and to the Lamb.

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  1. Revelation 14:4 M adds by Jesus

“You(A) only have I known of all the families of the earth;
(B)Therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.”

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Judgment on Wicked Counselors

11 Then (A)the Spirit lifted me up and brought me to (B)the East Gate of the Lord’s house, which faces eastward; and there (C)at the door of the gate were twenty-five men, among whom I saw Jaazaniah the son of Azzur, and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, princes of the people.

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Then He said to me, “Son of man, lift your eyes now toward the north.” So I lifted my eyes toward the north, and there, north of the altar gate, was this image of jealousy in the entrance.

Furthermore He said to me, “Son of man, do you see what they are doing, the great (A)abominations that the house of Israel commits here, to make Me go far away from My sanctuary? Now turn again, you will see greater abominations.” So He brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked, there was a hole in the wall. Then He said to me, “Son of man, dig into the wall”; and when I dug into the wall, there was a door.

And He said to me, “Go in, and see the wicked abominations which they are doing there.” 10 So I went in and saw, and there—every (B)sort of (C)creeping thing, abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, [a]portrayed all around on the walls. 11 And there stood before them (D)seventy men of the elders of the house of Israel, and in their midst stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan. Each man had a censer in his hand, and a thick cloud of incense went up. 12 Then He said to me, “Son of man, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the room of his idols? For they say, (E)‘The Lord does not see us, the Lord has forsaken the land.’ ”

13 And He said to me, “Turn again, and you will see greater abominations that they are doing.” 14 So He brought me to the door of the north gate of the Lord’s house; and to my dismay, women were sitting there weeping for [b]Tammuz.

15 Then He said to me, “Have you seen this, O son of man? Turn again, you will see greater abominations than these.” 16 So He brought me into the inner court of the Lord’s house; and there, at the door of the temple of the Lord, (F)between the porch and the altar, (G)were about twenty-five men (H)with their backs toward the temple of the Lord and their faces toward the east, and they were worshiping (I)the sun toward the east.

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  1. Ezekiel 8:10 Or carved
  2. Ezekiel 8:14 A Sumerian fertility god similar to the Gr. god Adonis

And we utterly destroyed them, as we did to Sihon king (A)of Heshbon, utterly destroying the men, women, and children of every city.

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