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Ezekiel 9:2

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

And I saw six men coming from the direction of the Upper Gate,  which faces north, each with a war club in his hand. There was another man among them, clothed in linen,  carrying writing equipment. They came and stood beside the bronze altar.

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The Lord spoke to the man clothed in linen and said, ‘Go inside the wheelwork beneath the cherubim. Fill your hands with blazing coals from among the cherubim and scatter them over the city.’  So he went in as I watched.


He is to wear a holy linen tunic, and linen undergarments are to be on his body. He is to tie a linen sash round him and wrap his head with a linen turban.  These are holy garments; he must bathe his body with water before he wears them.


Out of the temple came the seven angels with the seven plagues, dressed in pure, bright linen, with golden sashes wrapped round their chests.


Yet the high places were not taken away; the people continued sacrificing and burning incense on the high places. Jotham built the Upper Gate of the Lord’s temple.


When the officials of Judah heard about these things, they went from the king’s palace to the Lord’s temple and sat at the entrance of the New Gate of the Lord’s temple.  ,


I am going to send for all the families of the north”   #– #this is the Lord’s declaration #– #”and send for my servant  Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and I will bring them against this land, against its residents, and against all these surrounding nations, and I will completely destroy them and make them an example of horror  and scorn, and ruins for ever.


Indeed, I am about to summon all the clans and kingdoms of the north.’ This is the Lord’s declaration. They will come, and each king will set up his throne at the entrance to Jerusalem’s gates. They will attack all her surrounding walls and all the other cities of Judah.


Jotham built the Upper Gate of the Lord’s temple, and he built extensively on the wall of Ophel.


He made a bronze altar  nine metres  long, nine metres wide, and four and a half metres  high.


He placed the altar of burnt offering at the entrance to the tabernacle, the tent of meeting, and offered the burnt offering and the grain offering on it, just as the Lord had commanded him.


Then the glory of the God of Israel  rose from above the cherub where it had been, to the threshold of the temple. He called to the man clothed in linen and carrying writing equipment.


Then the man clothed in linen and carrying writing equipment reported back, ‘I have done all that you commanded me.’


I looked up, and there was a man dressed in linen,  with a belt of gold  from Uphaz  , round his waist.


One of them said to the man dressed in linen,  who was above the water of the river,  ‘How long until the end  of these wondrous things? ’


Lift up a signal flag towards Zion. Run for cover! Don’t stand still! For I am bringing disaster from the north – a crushing blow.


He stretched out what appeared to be a hand and took me by the hair of my head. Then the Spirit lifted me up between earth and heaven and carried me in visions of God  to Jerusalem, to the entrance of the inner gate that faces north, where the offensive statue that provokes jealousy  was located.


I saw the Lord standing beside the altar,  and he said: Strike the capitals of the pillars so that the thresholds shake; knock them down on the heads of all the people. Then I will kill the rest of them with the sword. None of those who flee will get away; none of the fugitives will escape.





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