פירוש על יחזקאל 9:2

six men Our Rabbis explained them in Tractate Shabbath (55a) as Anger, Wrath, Fury, Destroyer, Breaker, Annihilator.

his sledgehammer Heb. כְּלִי מַפַּצוֹ, which smashes everything, as in (Ps. 137: 9): “and dash (וְנִפֵּץ) your infants.”

with a scribe’s tablet [Synonymous with] פִּנְקַס. These are wax- covered tablets upon which they engrave with a stylus.