Ezekiel 9

Ezekiel 9:1

Behold - You shall perish by the sword, famine and pestilence, and those of you who escape them, shall be slaves, in many nations.

Ezekiel 9:2

Cut the calf - It seems these Jews in their making of the solemn covenant with God about releasing their servants used this rite; they caused a calf, or heifer to be cut in pieces, and the parts to be laid in the temple, right over - against one another; then they recited this covenant, and passed between the parts of the heifer so cut; silently agreeing that God should cut them in pieces like that beast if they did not make their words good.

Ezekiel 9:6

Behold - I will put into their hearts to return.

Ezekiel 9:8

The word - This is another evidence that the prophecies of this book are not left us in that order wherein they were delivered; for those which we had in the two or three foregoing chapters being in the time of Zedekiah, must needs be ten or eleven years after this.

Ezekiel 9:9

Rechabites - These Rechabites had their name from Rechab their father, descended from Hemath, a Kenite, who is also called Hobab, Judges 4:11, or Jethro the father in law of Moses.

Ezekiel 9:11

Igdaliah - A prophet. The princes - The chamber were the princes were wont to meet.