Ezekiel 9:2 (KJV)

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And behold six men came from the way of the higher gate which lieth toward the north and every man a slaughter weapon in his hand and one man among them was clothed with linen with a riter’s inkhorn by his side and they went in and stood beside the brasen altar

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six. Jer 1:15 Jer 5:15-17 Jer 8:16 Jer 8:17 Jer 25:9

the higher. 2Ki 15:35 2Ch 27:3 Jer 26:10

lieth. Heb. is turned. slaughter weapon. Heb. weapon ofhis breaking in pieces. and one. Eze 10:2 Eze 10:6 Eze 10:7 Le 16:4 Re 15:6

by his side. Heb. upon his loins. beside. Ex 27:1-7 Ex 40:29 2Ch 4:1

ink-horn.{Keseth,} (in Chaldee, {kista,} Syriac, {kesto,} Ethiopic, {kasut,}) denotes a bottle, or vessel to hold any fluid; and being here united to {sophair,} a writer, is not improperly rendered as an ink-horn: so one of the editions of Aquila, [melandocheion,] and Vulgate, {atramentarium.} Dr. Shaw informs us, that among the Moors, "the {Hojas,} i.e., writers or secretaries, suspend their ink-horns in their girdles."

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