Defile the house - By filling the temple and its courts with the bodies of the slain. See Numbers 19:11.

Defile the house. —The utmost possible pollution under the Mosaic economy was the touch of a dead body. (1 Kings 13:2;…

Here God repeats what He had previously touched upon briefly and obscurely: namely, that the Jews trusted in vain in the visible temple, because He…

And he said unto them, defile the house The temple; do not be afraid of slaying any person in it, for fear of defiling it…

The slaughter must begin at the sanctuary, that all may see and know that the Lord hates sin most in those nearest to him. He who was appointed to …