Ezekiel 16:40
in Ezekiel 16They will bring a mob against you, who will stone you and cut you to pieces with their swords.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
They shall also bring up a company against thee, and they shall stone thee with stones, and thrust thee through with their swords.
KJV
They shall also bring up a company against thee, and they shall stone thee with stones, and thrust thee through with their swords.
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This verse in Ezekiel 16
Commentary
5 notes on this verseThey shall also bring up a company against thee,.... An army, so the Targum; the Chaldean army: and they shall stone thee with stones: cast out of their engines and slings, by which they battered the walls, as well as killed the inhabitants; and so the Targum renders it, with sling stones; the allusion is to the stoning of adulterous persons, Deu 22:24; and thrust thee through with their swords; such as attempted to escape out of the city, or fell into the hands of the enemy when it was taken, were slain with the sword.
This site's exposition
They shall also bring up a company against thee
on Ezekiel 16:40-43
The penalty the law set for adultery, stoning and the sword, falls on the city, and the houses are burned, images the fall of Jerusalem to Babylon fulfilled in fact. The Lord's fury is said to rest once it is spent, language Barnes reads as judicial rather than vindictive, a debt paid rather than an appetite satisfied. The chapter's refrain returns at the close, thou shalt not commit this lewdness above all thine abominations, naming the sin one final time before the tone changes.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers1 voice
(Verse 35 and following) Therefore, prostitute, listen to the word of the Lord. Thus says the Lord God: Because your bronze has been poured out, and your disgrace has been revealed in your fornication (in your adulteries), with your lovers, and with the idols of your abominations, in the blood of your sons, whom you have given to them.
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
): They shall bring up a company (that is, a company shall be brought up) against thee, and they shall stone thee with stones, and thrust thee through with their swords; so great a death, so many deaths in one, is this adulteress adjudged to.
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The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
judge thee, as women that break wedlock-- (Le 20:10; compare Eze 16:2). In the case of individual adulteresses, stoning was the penalty (Joh 8:4, 5). In the case of communities, the sword.
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The words behind it
8 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְהֶעֱל֤וּ | veheelu | and they will bring up | H5927 → | 890 times |
| עָלַ֙יִךְ֙ | ʾalayikh | on you | H5921 → | 5755 times |
| קָהָ֔ל | kahal | a company | H6951 → | 123 times |
| וְרָגְמ֥וּ | veragemu | and they will stone | H7275 → | |
| אוֹתָ֖ךְ | ʾotakh | <obj.> you | H853 → | 10935 times |
| בָּאָ֑בֶן | baaven | with <the> stone[s] | H68 → | 273 times |
| וּבִתְּק֖וּךְ | uvitekukh | and they will cut to pieces you | H1333 → | |
| בְּחַרְבוֹתָֽם׃ | becharvotam | with swords their | H2719 → | 413 times |
וְהֶעֱל֤וּand they will bring up
veheeluH5927 →890 times
עָלַ֙יִךְ֙on you
ʾalayikhH5921 →5755 times
קָהָ֔לa company
kahalH6951 →123 times
וְרָגְמ֥וּand they will stone
veragemuH7275 →
אוֹתָ֖ךְ<obj.> you
ʾotakhH853 →10935 times
בָּאָ֑בֶןwith <the> stone[s]
baavenH68 →273 times
וּבִתְּק֖וּךְand they will cut to pieces you
uvitekukhH1333 →
בְּחַרְבוֹתָֽם׃with swords their
becharvotamH2719 →413 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Ezekiel 24:21Tell the house of Israel that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘I am about to desecrate My sanctuary, the pride of your power, the desire of your eyes, and the delight of…
it leads to
- Ezekiel 23:47
The mob will stone them and cut them down with their swords. They will kill their sons and daughters and burn down their houses.
- Psalms 27:4
One thing I have asked of the LORD; this is what I desire: to dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze on the beauty of the…
- Jeremiah 7:14
therefore what I did to Shiloh I will now do to the house that bears My Name, the house in which you trust, the place that I gave to you and your fathers.
- Ezekiel 23:25
And I will set My jealous rage against you, and they will deal with you in fury. They will cut off your noses and ears, and your survivors will fall by the sword. They…
- Ezekiel 23:47
Through
Ezekiel 23:47The mob will stone them and cut them down with their swords. They will kill their sons and daughters and burn down their houses.
it leads to
- Jeremiah 39:8
The Chaldeans set fire to the palace of the king and to the houses of the people, and they broke down the walls of Jerusalem.
- Ezekiel 16:40–41
They will bring a mob against you, who will stone you and cut you to pieces with their swords.
- Jeremiah 39:8
Through
Ezekiel 23:10They exposed her nakedness, seized her sons and daughters, and put her to the sword. Thus she became a byword among women, and they executed judgment against her.
it leads to
- Ezekiel 23:29
They will treat you with hatred, take all for which you have worked, and leave you naked and bare, so that the shame of your prostitution will be exposed. Your indecency and promiscuity
- Hosea 2:10
And then I will expose her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and no one will deliver her out of My hands.
- Ezekiel 23:29
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About Ezekiel
This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jerome, Commentary on Ezekiel; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.