KJVThey shall also bring up a company against thee, and they shall stone thee with stones, and thrust thee through with their swords.
They shall also bring up a company against thee, and they shall stone thee with stones, and thrust thee through with their swords.
They will bring a mob against you, who will stone you and cut you to pieces with their swords.
And have caused an assembly to come up against thee, And stoned thee with stones, And thrust thee through with their swords,
And they shall bring up an assemblage against thee, and they shall stone thee with stones, and thrust thee through with their swords.
Ezekiel — Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament).
The allegory which runs through this chapter is by no means an unusual one in the Prophets. The beginning of Ezekiel 16:3 has occasioned some variety of remark. OEcolampadius takes mkvrh, mekoreh, meaning "birth," "origin," for mgvrh, megoreh, meaning "dwelling;" as Calvin translates it habitationes. Houbigant derives it from krh,…