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He said to them, Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain: go you forth. They went forth, and struck in the city.
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The Ultimate Defilement
Commentators explain that the command to fill the temple with corpses was profoundly shocking. Under Mosaic Law, contact with a dead body was the highest form of ritual impurity. This act was not an unfortunate side effect of the slaughter; it was a deliberate part of the judgment, meant to show the complete desecration of a place the people falsely trusted in.
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Ezekiel
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Defile the house - By filling the temple and its courts with the bodies of the slain. See Numbers 19:11.
19th Century
Anglican
Defile the house. —The utmost possible pollution under the Mosaic economy was the touch of a dead body. (1 Kings 13:2;…
16th Century
Protestant
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…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
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 …
