Ezekiel 21:4

Seeing then that I will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked, therefore shall my sword go forth out of his sheath against all flesh from the south to the north:

Therefore shall my sword go forth out of his sheath against all flesh from the south to the north. The "sword " did not, literally, slay all; but the judgments of God by the foe swept through the land "from the south to the north."