Matthew Poole and continuators on Ezekiel 9:7

7 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.

Regard not the Holiness of the Temple: Idolaters whom you are to slay, have defiled it with the Blood of Idols, Sacrifices, do you defile it with the Blood of the Idolatrous Sacrificers: Slay them where you find them, for there they sinn'd against me.

Make a great Slaughter, let every place be stained with their blood.

There were the Priests, the Levites, and the womens Courts, and there will be found persons of a different character, but unless my mark be upon them, forbear none of them.

Make haste, do not ye, for I do not delay, nor will I.

Here as before they shew their ready Obedience.

This slaughter was visional in the eye of the Prophet, and a Preface to the saddest Butcheries Israel ever bled and groaned under.