Ezekiel 9:8

And it came to pass: this is a most usual transition, and Scripture phrase. While; there was some space of time taken up in the execution. They were slaying; the six slaughtermen; not bodily and actually, but visionally, and in prophetic representation. Slaying them; those about the sanctuary, and in the city. I was left; either survived the slaughter, or left alone, now both the sealer and the slayers were gone; or alone sealed of all the priests, the rest being exposed to destruction. I fell on my face, in most humble and earnest manner addressing to God, as one that would entreat mercy for a ruined state; and cried, importunately prayed; and the prayer follows. Ah! an expression of the greatest compounded affection of pity, desire, and zeal for the afflicted; and what follows is a complex of arguments for pity and sparing mercy; from God himself, from his peculiar hand in this, from his people, the remnant of them, and from the sad and mournful state Jerusalem was already in. Must all Israel drink thus of the cup of thine indignation? The residue of Israel; so called, because many were already in captivity with Jeconiah, and had been so about six or seven years; or else in respect to the electing love of God, who ever reserved a remnant to himself.