Ezekiel 9:5-7

Expanded Bible

⁵ As I listened, he said to the other men, “Go through the city behind the man dressed in linen and ·kill [strike]. Don’t [^Llet your eye] pity anyone, and don’t ·show mercy [spare them]. ⁶ Kill and destroy old men, young men and ·women [virgins], little children, and older women, but don’t touch any who have the mark on them. Start at my ·Temple [sanctuary].” So they started with the ·elders [or old men] who were in front of the ·Temple [^Lhouse].

⁷ Then he said to the men, “·Make the Temple unclean [Defile the temple; ^Critually], and fill the courtyards with ·those who have been killed [the slain]. Go out!” So the men went out and killed the people in the city.