Ezekiel 23:47

And the company shall stone them with stones, and dispatch them with their swords; they shall slay their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses with fire.

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
company	קָהָ֔ל ka.Hal	H6951	assemblage (usually concretely) · noun, common masculine singular absolute
stone	וְרָגְמ֨וּ ve.ra.ge.Mu	H7275	to cast together (stones) · conjunction + verb, qal sequential perfect, 3rd person common plural
stones	אֶ֙בֶן֙ 'e.ven	H68	a stone · noun, common feminine singular absolute
dispatch	וּבָרֵ֥א u.va.Re'	H1254	(absolutely) to create · conjunction + verb, piel infinitive construct
swords	בְּחַרְבוֹתָ֑ם be.char.vo.Tam	H2719	drought · preposition + noun, common feminine plural construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine plural
slay	יַהֲרֹ֔גוּ ya.ha.Ro.gu	H2026	to smite with deadly intent · verb, qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural
sons	בְּנֵיהֶ֤ם be.nei.Hem	H1121	a son (as a builder of the family name) · noun, common masculine plural construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine plural
daughters	וּבְנֽוֹתֵיהֶם֙ u.ve.no.tei.Hem	H1323	a daughter (used in the same wide sense as other terms… · conjunction + noun, common feminine plural construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine plural
up	יִשְׂרֹֽפוּ yis.Ro.fu	H8313	to be (causatively · verb, qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural
houses	וּבָתֵּיהֶ֖ן u.va.tei.Hen	H1004	a house (in the greatest variation of applications · conjunction + noun, common masculine plural construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person feminine plural
fire	בָּאֵ֥שׁ ba.'Esh	H784	fire (literally or figuratively) · preposition with the article + noun, common both genders singular absolute

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Cross-references

Jeremiah 39:8 And the Chaldeans burned the king’s house, and the houses of the people, with fire, and brake down the walls of Jerusalem.
Ezekiel 16:40-41 They shall also bring up a company against thee, and they shall stone thee with stones, and thrust thee through with their swords.
Ezekiel 24:21 Speak unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the excellency of your strength, the desire of…
Deuteronomy 13:16 And thou shalt gather all the spoil of it into the midst of the street thereof, and shalt burn with fire the city, and all the spoil thereof…
2 Chronicles 36:17-19 Therefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldees, who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no…
Jeremiah 33:4-5 For thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning the houses of this city, and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah, which are t…
Jeremiah 52:13 And burned the house of the LORD, and the king’s house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, and all the houses of the great men, burned he with…
Ezekiel 9:6 Slay utterly old and young, both maids, and little children, and women: but come not near any man upon whom is the mark; and begin at my san…

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 23:22–end

Jerusalem stands indicted by the name of Aholibah, for that she, as a false traitor to her sovereign Lord the God of heaven, not having his fear before her eyes, but moved by the instigation of the devil, had revolted from her allegiance to him, had compassed and imagined to shake off his government, had kept up a correspondence had joined in confederacy with his enemies, and the pretenders to a deity, in contempt of his crown and dignity. To this indictment she has pleaded, Not guilty: I am not polluted; I have not gone after Baalim. But it is found against her by the notorious evidence of the fact, and she stands convicted of it, nor has any thing material to offer why judgment should not…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Ezekiel 23:47

stones--the legal penalty of the adulteress (Eze 16:40-41; Joh 8:5). Answering to the stones hurled by the Babylonians from engines in besieging Jerusalem. houses . . . fire--fulfilled (Ch2 36:17, Ch2 36:19).

Adam Clarke on Ezekiel 23:47

Shall stone them with stones - As they did adulteresses under the law. See Lev 20:10; Deu 22:22, compared with Joh 8:3.

John Gill on Ezekiel 23:47

And the company shall stone them with stones,.... Which was the punishment of adulterers and idolaters, Deuteronomy 13:10, this seems to refer to the Chaldean army casting out stones from their slings and engines into the city of Jerusalem, when they besieged it, by which they killed some, and beat down the houses, which fell upon others, and destroyed them. So the Targum, "and the army shall stone them with the stones of a sling:'' and dispatch them with their swords; cut them in pieces with them, such as sallied out of the city upon them, or they found without, or by any means fell into their hands: they shall slay their sons and their daughters; when they broke into the city, and took…

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Dictionary and topics

Aholah And Aholibah — (my tabernacle) two symbolical names, are described as harlots, the former representing Samaria and the latter Judah. Ezek. 23.
Adultery · 29:22,23; — 29:22,23;
Assyria · The Jews condemned for following the idolatries of — The Jews condemned for following the idolatries of
Fire · Torture by — Torture by

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Ezekiel 23:47

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 23:22–end

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Ezekiel 23:47

Adam Clarke on Ezekiel 23:47

John Gill on Ezekiel 23:47

Dictionary and topics

Ezekiel 23:47

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 23:22–end

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Ezekiel 23:47

Adam Clarke on Ezekiel 23:47

John Gill on Ezekiel 23:47

Dictionary and topics

Keil & Delitzsch on Ezekiel 23:36–end

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Ezekiel 23:44-49

Rashi on Ezekiel 23:47