Ezekiel 9:5-6

Ezekiel also heard the Lord instruct the six other men to go through the city after the man with the writing case and slay everyone who did not have the special mark on him or her. They were to start from the temple and show no mercy to any individual who lacked the mark. So these six men began their assignment with the elders of Jerusalem who were in front of the temple (cf. Ezekiel 8:11). Judgment started with those closest to God, as it typically must (1 Peter 4:17; cf. Matthew 18:6; Mark 9:42; Luke 17:2; Hebrews 13:17).