Ezekiel 16:40

They will bring a mob to attack you, and that mob will throw stones at you and cut you to pieces with their swords.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

They shall also bring up a company against thee, and they shall stone thee with stones, and thrust thee through with their swords.

In Context

39I will allow your enemies who you thought loved you [IRO] to defeat you, and they will tear down your shrines. It will be as though they will strip off your fancy clothes and take away your fine jewelry and cause you to be completely naked [DOU].

41They will burn down your houses and punish you while many women are watching. I will cause your acting like a prostitute and paying your lovers to have sex with you to end.

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 36:17He incited the king of Babylonia to attack Judah with his army. They killed the young men with their swords, even in the temple. They did not spare/pity anyone, young men or young women or old people. God enabled the army of Nebuchadnezzar to kill all of them.

Ezekiel 23:10They stripped all her clothes off her. They took away her sons and daughters. And then they killed her with a sword. Other women started talking about what had happened to her, about how she had been punished.

Ezekiel 23:47The mob will throw stones at them to kill them; they will cut them into pieces with their swords, they will kill their sons and daughters, and burn down their houses.

Habakkuk 1:6The soldiers of Babylonia are fierce/cruel and swift. And now I am causing them to become very powerful; they will march across the world and conquer many other countries.

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 16:36-44

Grievous Punishment of Israel; Punishment Threatened. ( b. c. 593.) 35 Wherefore, O harlot, hear the word of the Lord : 36 Thus saith the Lord God ; Because thy filthiness was poured out, and thy nakedness discovered through thy whoredoms with thy lovers, and with all the idols of thy abominations, and by the blood of thy children, which thou didst give unto them; 37 Behold, therefore I will gather all thy lovers, with whom thou hast taken pleasure, and all them that thou hast loved, with all them that thou hast… Read the whole commentary →

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