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Contemporary English Version

Ezekiel 23:47

They will stone you to death and cut you to pieces; they will kill your children and burn down your houses.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Adultery;   Fire;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Assyria;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Adultery;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Marriage;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Repentance;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Ezekiel;   Oholibah;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Oholah and Oholibah;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Adultery;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Ḳedeshah;  

Parallel Translations

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.
Hebrew Names Version
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.
King James Version
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.
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.
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.
New Century Version
Let the mob kill them by throwing stones at them, and let them cut them down with their swords. Let them kill their sons and daughters and burn their houses down.
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.
World 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.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And the multitude shall stone them with stones, and cut them with their swordes: they shal slay their sonnes, and their daughters, and burne vp their houses with fire.
New American Standard Bible (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.
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.
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.
Complete Jewish Bible
Let the assembly stone them to death, dispatch them with their swords, kill their sons and daughters and burn their houses to the ground.
Darby Translation
And the assemblage shall stone them with stones, and despatch them with their swords; they shall kill their sons and their daughters, and burn their houses with fire.
Easy-to-Read Version
They will throw stones at these women and kill them. They will cut the women to pieces with their swords. They will kill their children and burn their houses.
George Lamsa Translation
And 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.
Good News Translation
Let the mob stone them and attack them with swords, kill their children, and burn down their houses.
Lexham English Bible
And an assembly must stone them with stones, and they must cut them down. With their swords they shall kill their sons and their daughters, and with fire they shall burn their houses.
Literal Translation
And the assembly shall stone them with stones and cut them down with their swords. They shall slay their sons and their daughters, and they shall burn their houses with fire.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
these shal stone them, and gorre them with their sweardes. They shal slaye their sonnes and doughters and burne vp their houses with fyre.
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.
Bible in Basic English
And the meeting, after stoning her with stones, will put an end to her with their swords; they will put her sons and daughters to death and have her house burned up with fire.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
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.
King James Version (1611)
And the companie shall stone them with stones, and dispatch them with their swords: they shall slay their sonnes and their daughters, and burne vp their houses with fire.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the multitude shall stone them with stones, and cut them downe with their swordes, they shall slay their sonnes and daughters, and burne vp their houses with fire.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
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.
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.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and be thei stoonyd with the stoonys of puplis, and be thei stikid togidere with the swerdis of hem. Thei schulen sle the sones and the douytris of hem, and thei schulen brenne with fier the housis of hem.
Update Bible Version
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.
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.
New English Translation
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 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 Living Translation
For their enemies will stone them and kill them with swords. They will butcher their sons and daughters and burn their homes.
New Life Bible
The group will kill them with stones and with swords. They will kill their sons and daughters and burn down their houses.
New Revised Standard
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.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Yea a gathered host shall stone them with stones, and dispatch them with their swords, Their sons and their daughters, shall they slay, And their houses - in the fire, shall they consume.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And let the people stone them with stone, and let them be stabbed with their swords: they shall kill their sons and daughters, and their houses they shall burn with fire.
Revised Standard Version
And the host shall stone them and dispatch them with their swords; they shall slay their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses.
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.

Contextual Overview

36 The Lord said: Ezekiel, son of man, it's time for you to tell Oholah and Oholibah that they are guilty. Remind them of their evil ways! 37 They have been unfaithful by worshiping idols, and they have committed murder by sacrificing my own children as offerings to idols. 38They came into my temple that same day, and that made it unfit as a place to worship me. They have even stopped respecting the Sabbath. 40 They sent messengers to attract men from far away. When those men arrived, the two sisters took baths and put on eye shadow and jewelry. 41 They sat on a fancy couch, and in front of them was a table for the olive oil and incense that had belonged to me. 42 Their room was always filled with a noisy crowd of drunkards brought in from the desert. These men gave the women bracelets and beautiful crowns, 43 and I noticed that the men were eager to have sex with these women, though they were exhausted from being prostitutes. 44 In fact, the men had sex over and over with Oholah and Oholibah, the two sinful sisters. 45 But good men will someday accuse those two of murder and of being unfaithful, because they are certainly guilty. 46 So I, the Lord God, now say to these sisters: I will call together an angry mob that will abuse and rob you.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the company: Ezekiel 23:25, Ezekiel 23:29, Ezekiel 9:6, Ezekiel 16:41, Jeremiah 33:4, Jeremiah 33:5

dispatch them: or, single them out, Ezekiel 24:6

shall slay: Ezekiel 24:21, 2 Chronicles 36:17-19

and burn: Deuteronomy 13:16, Jeremiah 39:8, Jeremiah 52:13

Reciprocal: Psalms 106:37 - they sacrificed Jeremiah 4:31 - because Ezekiel 5:17 - and I Ezekiel 16:27 - delivered Ezekiel 16:40 - and thrust Ezekiel 22:15 - consume Ezekiel 23:10 - they took Ezekiel 24:11 - that the filthiness Hosea 8:10 - now John 8:5 - Moses

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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 it; or when they found them making their escape, and hiding themselves in secret places:

and burn up their houses with fire; as they did; the temple, the king's palace, the houses of noblemen, and all the houses in Jerusalem; see Jeremiah 52:13.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The judgment to be executed by the hands of their allies.

Ezekiel 23:45

The righteous men - Or, righteous men. The allies are so called as the instruments of God’s righteous judgments.

Ezekiel 23:48

To cease - Because they are stricken and consumed. Compare marginal reference.

All women - i. e., all countries.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezekiel 23:47. Shall stone them with stones — As they did adulteresses under the law. See Leviticus 20:10; Deuteronomy 22:22, compared with John 8:3.


 
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