Ezekiel 9:1

The Execution of Idolaters

9:1 Then he shouted in my ears, “Approach, ¹  you who are to visit destruction on the city, each with his destructive weapon in his hand!”

Ezekiel 38:21

38:21 I will call for a sword to attack ²  Gog ³  on all my mountains, declares the sovereign Lord; every man’s sword will be against his brother.

[9:1]  ¹ tc Heb “they approached.” Reading the imperative assumes the same consonantal text but different vowels.

[38:21]  ² tn Heb “against.”

[38:21]  ³ tn Heb “him”; the referent (Gog, cf. v. 18) has been specified in the translation for clarity.