Ezekiel 9:7 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Then he said to them, “Defile the house and fill the courts with the slain. Go!” So they went out and killed in the city.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

And 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

And He said to [the executioners], Defile the temple and fill its courts with the slain. Go forth! And they went forth and slew in the city.

American Standard Version (1901)

And 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.

Common English Bible

He said to them: Make the temple unclean! Fill the courts with the slain! Go! And they went out and attacked the city.

Catholic Public Domain Version

And he said to them: "Defile the house, and fill its courts with the slain! Go forth!" And they went forth and struck down those who were in the city.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And 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.

Ezekiel 9:7 Cross References

2 Chronicles 36:17

Therefore he brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans, who killed their youths with the sword in the house of their sanctuary and had no compassion on young man or young woman, the aged or the feeble; he gave them all into his hand.

Lamentations 2:20

Look, O Lord, and consider! To whom have you done this? Should women eat their offspring, the children they have borne? Should priest and prophet be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?

Luke 13:1

At that very time there were some present who told Jesus about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices.