Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version The mob will stone them and cut them down with their swords; they will kill their sons and daughters and burn down their houses. New Living Translation For their enemies will stone them and kill them with swords. They will butcher their sons and daughters and burn their homes. English Standard Version And the host shall stone them and cut them down with their swords. They shall kill their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses. Berean Standard Bible The mob will stone them and cut them down with their swords. They will kill their sons and daughters and burn down their houses. King James Bible 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. New King James Version The assembly shall stone them with stones and execute them with their swords; they shall slay their sons and their daughters, and burn their houses with fire. New American Standard Bible The contingent will stone them with stones and cut them down with their swords; they will kill their sons and their daughters and burn their houses with fire. NASB 1995 ‘The company will stone them with stones and cut them down with their swords; they will slay their sons and their daughters and burn their houses with fire. NASB 1977 ‘And the company will stone them with stones and cut them down with their swords; they will slay their sons and their daughters and burn their houses with fire. Legacy Standard Bible The assembly will stone them with stones and cut them down with their swords; they will kill their sons and their daughters and burn their houses with fire. Amplified Bible And the horde will stone them with stones and cut them down with their swords; they will kill their sons and their daughters and burn down their houses with fire. Christian Standard Bible The assembly will stone them and cut them down with their swords. They will kill their sons and daughters and burn their houses. Holman Christian Standard Bible The assembly will stone them and cut them down with their swords. They will kill their sons and daughters and burn their houses with fire. American Standard Version And the company shall stone them with stones, and despatch them with their swords; they shall slay their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses with fire. Contemporary English Version They will stone you to death and cut you to pieces; they will kill your children and burn down your houses. English Revised Version And the assembly shall stone them with stones, and despatch them with their swords; they shall slay their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses with fire. GOD'S WORD® Translation Then the mob will stone them and kill them with swords. The mob will kill their sons and daughters and burn their homes. Good News Translation Let the mob stone them and attack them with swords, kill their children, and burn down their houses. International Standard Version Then the army will stone them with stones and cut them to pieces with their swords. They'll kill their sons and daughters and incinerate their houses. NET Bible That army will pelt them with stones and slash them with their swords; they will kill their sons and daughters and burn their houses. New Heart English Bible The company shall stone them with stones, and dispatch them with their swords; they shall kill their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses with fire. Webster's Bible Translation And the company shall stone them with stones, and dispatch them with their swords; they shall slay their sons and their daughters, and burn their houses with fire. Majority Text Translations Majority Standard BibleThe mob will stone them and cut them down with their swords. They will kill their sons and daughters and burn down their houses. World English Bible The company will stone them with stones and dispatch them with their swords. They will kill their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses with fire. Literal Translations Literal Standard VersionAnd they have cast the stone of the assembly at them, "" And cut them with their swords, "" They slay their sons and their daughters, "" And they burn their houses with fire. Young's Literal Translation And they have cast at them the stone of the assembly, And cut them with their swords, Their sons and their daughters they do slay, And their houses with fire they burn. Smith's Literal Translation And the convocation stoned upon them with stone, and cut them down with: their swords; they will slay their sons and their daughters, and their houses they will burn in fire. Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleAnd lee the people stone them with stones, and let them be stabbed with their swords: they shall kill their sons and daughters, and their houses they shall burn with fire. Catholic Public Domain Version And may they be stoned with the stones of the peoples, and may they be pierced with their own swords. They will put to death their sons and daughters, and they will burn their houses with fire. New American Bible The army will stone them and hack them to pieces with their swords. They will kill their sons and daughters and set fire to their houses. New Revised Standard Version The assembly shall stone them and with their swords they shall cut them down; they shall kill their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses. Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleAnd the multitude shall stone them with stones and thrust them through with their swords; they shall slay their sons and their daughters and burn their houses with fire. Peshitta Holy Bible Translated And the multitude shall stone them with stones, and they shall strike them with their swords, and their sons and their daughters they shall kill, and their houses they shall burn with fire OT Translations JPS Tanakh 1917And the assembly shall stone them with stones, and despatch them with their swords; they shall slay their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses with fire. Brenton Septuagint Translation And stone them with the stones of a multitude, and pierce them with their swords: they shall slay their sons and their daughters, and shall burn up their houses. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Judgment on Both Sisters…46This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Bring a mob against them and consign them to terror and plunder. 47The mob will stone them and cut them down with their swords. They will kill their sons and daughters and burn down their houses. 48So I will put an end to indecency in the land, and all the women will be admonished not to imitate your behavior.… Cross References Revelation 17:16 And the ten horns and the beast that you saw will hate the prostitute. They will leave her desolate and naked, and they will eat her flesh and burn her with fire. Revelation 18:6-8 Give back to her as she has done to others; pay her back double for what she has done; mix her a double portion in her own cup. / As much as she has glorified herself and lived in luxury, give her the same measure of torment and grief. In her heart she says, ‘I sit as queen; I am not a widow and will never see grief.’ / Therefore her plagues will come in one day—death and grief and famine—and she will be consumed by fire, for mighty is the Lord God who judges her.” Jeremiah 25:9 behold, I will summon all the families of the north, declares the LORD, and I will send for My servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, whom I will bring against this land, against its residents, and against all the surrounding nations. So I will devote them to destruction and make them an object of horror and contempt, an everlasting desolation. Jeremiah 50:41-42 Behold, an army is coming from the north; a great nation and many kings are stirred up from the ends of the earth. / They grasp the bow and spear; they are cruel and merciless. Their voice roars like the sea, and they ride upon horses, lined up like men in formation against you, O Daughter of Babylon. 2 Kings 25:1-7 So in the ninth year of Zedekiah’s reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched against Jerusalem with his entire army. They encamped outside the city and built a siege wall all around it. / And the city was kept under siege until King Zedekiah’s eleventh year. / By the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine in the city was so severe that the people of the land had no food. ... Lamentations 2:4 He has bent His bow like an enemy; His right hand is positioned. Like a foe He has killed all who were pleasing to the eye; He has poured out His wrath like fire on the tent of the Daughter of Zion. Isaiah 13:17-18 Behold, I will stir up against them the Medes, who have no regard for silver and no desire for gold. / Their bows will dash young men to pieces; they will have no mercy on the fruit of the womb; they will not look with pity on the children. Jeremiah 51:11 Sharpen the arrows! Fill the quivers! The LORD has aroused the spirit of the kings of the Medes, because His plan is aimed at Babylon to destroy her, for it is the vengeance of the LORD—vengeance for His temple. Revelation 19:2 For His judgments are true and just. He has judged the great prostitute who corrupted the earth with her immorality. He has avenged the blood of His servants that was poured out by her hand.” Matthew 22:7 The king was enraged, and he sent his troops to destroy those murderers and burn their city. Jeremiah 34:1-2 This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, all his army, all the earthly kingdoms under his control, and all the other nations were fighting against Jerusalem and all its surrounding cities. / The LORD, the God of Israel, told Jeremiah to go and speak to Zedekiah king of Judah and tell him that this is what the LORD says: “Behold, I am about to deliver this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will burn it down. Isaiah 10:5-6 Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger; the staff in their hands is My wrath. / I will send him against a godless nation; I will dispatch him against a people destined for My rage, to take spoils and seize plunder, and to trample them down like clay in the streets. Revelation 17:1-2 Then one of the seven angels with the seven bowls came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the punishment of the great prostitute, who sits on many waters. / The kings of the earth were immoral with her, and those who dwell on the earth were intoxicated with the wine of her immorality.” Jeremiah 39:1-3 In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched against Jerusalem with his entire army and laid siege to the city. / And on the ninth day of the fourth month of Zedekiah’s eleventh year, the city was breached. / Then all the officials of the king of Babylon entered and sat in the Middle Gate: Nergal-sharezer of Samgar, Nebo-sarsekim the Rabsaris, Nergal-sharezer the Rabmag, and all the rest of the officials of the king of Babylon. Isaiah 47:9 These two things will overtake you in a moment, in a single day: loss of children, and widowhood. They will come upon you in full measure, in spite of your many sorceries and the potency of your spells. Treasury of Scripture 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. the company Ezekiel 23:25,29 And I will set my jealousy against thee, and they shall deal furiously with thee: they shall take away thy nose and thine ears; and thy remnant shall fall by the sword: they shall take thy sons and thy daughters; and thy residue shall be devoured by the fire… 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 sanctuary. Then they began at the ancient men which were before the house. Ezekiel 16:41 And they shall burn thine houses with fire, and execute judgments upon thee in the sight of many women: and I will cause thee to cease from playing the harlot, and thou also shalt give no hire any more. dispatch them. Ezekiel 24:6 Wherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the bloody city, to the pot whose scum is therein, and whose scum is not gone out of it! bring it out piece by piece; let no lot fall upon it. shall slay 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 your eyes, and that which your soul pitieth; and your sons and your daughters whom ye have left shall fall by the sword. 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 compassion upon young man or maiden, old man, or him that stooped for age: he gave them all into his hand… and burn 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 every whit, for the LORD thy God: and it shall be an heap for ever; it shall not be built again. 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. 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 fire: Jump to Previous Assemblage Assembly Burn Burned Company Cut Daughters Death Dispatch End Fire Host House Houses Kill Meeting Mob Slay Stone Stones Stoning SwordsJump to Next Assemblage Assembly Burn Burned Company Cut Daughters Death Dispatch End Fire Host House Houses Kill Meeting Mob Slay Stone Stones Stoning SwordsEzekiel 23 1. The unfaithfulness of Aholah and Aholibah23. Aholibah is to be plagued by her lovers 36. The prophet reproves the adulteries of them both 45. and shows their judgments The mob will stone them In ancient Israel, stoning was a common method of execution for certain crimes, particularly those involving idolatry or sexual immorality (Leviticus 20:2, Deuteronomy 22:24). This reflects the severity of the judgment against the two sisters, symbolizing Samaria and Jerusalem, for their spiritual adultery and idolatry. The use of a mob indicates a communal judgment, emphasizing the collective responsibility and participation in executing divine justice. and cut them down with their swords. They will kill their sons and daughters and burn down their houses. Persons / Places / Events 1. EzekielA prophet of God who ministered to the exiles in Babylon. He is known for his vivid visions and symbolic actions. 2. Oholah and Oholibah Symbolic names for Samaria and Jerusalem, representing the Northern and Southern Kingdoms of Israel, respectively. They are depicted as two sisters who have committed spiritual adultery. 3. The Assembly Refers to the nations or groups that God uses as instruments of judgment against Israel for their idolatry and unfaithfulness. 4. Sons and Daughters Represents the future generations of Israel who suffer the consequences of their ancestors' sins. 5. Judgment The event of divine retribution executed through foreign nations as a consequence of Israel's persistent idolatry and rebellion against God. Teaching Points The Seriousness of IdolatryIdolatry is not just the worship of false gods but includes any form of unfaithfulness to God. It leads to severe consequences, as seen in the judgment upon Israel. God's Use of Nations for Judgment God can use even those outside His covenant people to execute His judgment. This reminds us of His sovereignty over all nations and events. Generational Consequences of Sin The sins of one generation can have devastating effects on the next. This calls for personal and communal repentance and a return to faithfulness. The Call to Repentance Despite the harshness of judgment, God's desire is for His people to turn back to Him. Repentance can avert disaster and restore relationship with God. The Holiness of God God's judgment underscores His holiness and intolerance of sin. Believers are called to reflect His holiness in their lives. Lists and Questions Top 10 Lessons from Ezekiel 23What explains inconsistencies between the Temple vision in Ezekiel 40 and other biblical Temple descriptions, such as in 1 Kings 6-7? Psalm 87:7 - In what sense are all 'springs' in Zion, given that historically rivers and water sources are not exclusive to Jerusalem? In Ezekiel 5:2-4, does the command to burn, scatter, and bind hair contradict other biblical teachings on ritual purity or symbolism? Is there any evidence outside the Bible supporting the military and political tumult depicted throughout Ezekiel 21?(47) With stones . . . with swords.--The figure and the reality are here designedly mixed. Stoning was the legal punishment of adultery, but the actual overthrow of Jerusalem was by the sword. Hebrew The mobקָהָ֔ל (qā·hāl) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 6951: Assembly, convocation, congregation will stone וְרָגְמ֨וּ (wə·rā·ḡə·mū) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person common plural Strong's 7275: To cast together, to lapidate them עֲלֵיהֶ֥ן (‘ă·lê·hen) Preposition | third person feminine plural Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against and cut them אֶ֙בֶן֙ (’e·ḇen) Noun - feminine singular Strong's 68: A stone down וּבָרֵ֥א (ū·ḇā·rê) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Infinitive absolute Strong's 1254: To create, to cut down, select, feed with their swords. בְּחַרְבוֹתָ֑ם (bə·ḥar·ḇō·w·ṯām) Preposition-b | Noun - feminine plural construct | third person masculine plural Strong's 2719: Drought, a cutting instrument, as a, knife, sword They will kill יַהֲרֹ֔גוּ (ya·hă·rō·ḡū) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural Strong's 2026: To smite with deadly intent their sons בְּנֵיהֶ֤ם (bə·nê·hem) Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine plural Strong's 1121: A son and daughters וּבְנֽוֹתֵיהֶם֙ (ū·ḇə·nō·w·ṯê·hem) Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine plural construct | third person masculine plural Strong's 1323: A daughter and burn down יִשְׂרֹֽפוּ׃ (yiś·rō·p̄ū) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural Strong's 8313: To be, on fire their houses. וּבָתֵּיהֶ֖ן (ū·ḇāt·tê·hen) Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural construct | third person feminine plural Strong's 1004: A house Links Ezekiel 23:47 NIVEzekiel 23:47 NLT Ezekiel 23:47 ESV Ezekiel 23:47 NASB Ezekiel 23:47 KJV Ezekiel 23:47 BibleApps.com Ezekiel 23:47 Biblia Paralela Ezekiel 23:47 Chinese Bible Ezekiel 23:47 French Bible Ezekiel 23:47 Catholic Bible OT Prophets: Ezekiel 23:47 The company shall stone them with stones (Ezek. 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