This verse draws very clearly on Ezek. 9.5–7, employing not merely its contents but actual phrases: ‘Pass through the city . . . and smite; your eye shall not spare, and you shall show no pity, slay old men outright, young men and maidens, little children and women . . . And begin at my sanctuary’ (cf. also Lam. 2.20–21). In Chronicles the vision of terror has become a historical fact.
