Ezekiel 16:40
New International Version
They will bring a mob against you, who will stone you and hack you to pieces with their swords.

New Living Translation
They will band together in a mob to stone you and cut you up with swords.

English Standard Version
They shall bring up a crowd against you, and they shall stone you and cut you to pieces with their swords.

Berean Standard Bible
They will bring a mob against you, who will stone you and cut you to pieces with their swords.

King James Bible
They shall also bring up a company against thee, and they shall stone thee with stones, and thrust thee through with their swords.

New King James Version
“They shall also bring up an assembly against you, and they shall stone you with stones and thrust you through with their swords.

New American Standard Bible
They will incite a crowd against you, and they will stone you and cut you to pieces with their swords.

NASB 1995
“They will incite a crowd against you and they will stone you and cut you to pieces with their swords.

NASB 1977
“They will incite a crowd against you, and they will stone you and cut you to pieces with their swords.

Legacy Standard Bible
They will bring up an assembly against you, and they will stone you and cut you to pieces with their swords.

Amplified Bible
They will also incite a crowd against you and they will stone you and slaughter you with their swords.

Christian Standard Bible
They will bring a mob against you to stone you and to cut you to pieces with their swords.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
They will bring a mob against you to stone you and cut you to pieces with their swords.

American Standard Version
They shall also bring up a company against thee, and they shall stone thee with stones, and thrust thee through with their swords.

Contemporary English Version
Your lovers and an angry mob will stone you to death; they will cut your dead body into pieces

English Revised Version
They shall also bring up an assembly against thee, and they shall stone thee with stones, and thrust thee through with their swords.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
They will also bring a mob against you. They will stone you and cut you into pieces with their swords.

Good News Translation
"They will stir up a crowd to stone you, and they will cut you to pieces with their swords.

International Standard Version
They'll bring a mob against you to stone you to death and cut you into pieces with their swords.

Majority Standard Bible
They will bring a mob against you, who will stone you and cut you to pieces with their swords.

NET Bible
They will summon a mob who will stone you and hack you in pieces with their swords.

New Heart English Bible
They shall also bring up a company against you, and they shall stone you with stones, and thrust you through with their swords.

Webster's Bible Translation
They shall also bring up a company against thee, and they shall stone thee with stones, and thrust thee through with their swords.

World English Bible
They will also bring up a company against you, and they will stone you with stones, and thrust you through with their swords.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
And have caused an assembly to come up against you, "" And stoned you with stones, "" And thrust you through with their swords,

Young's Literal Translation
And have caused an assembly to come up against thee, And stoned thee with stones, And thrust thee through with their swords,

Smith's Literal Translation
And they brought up a convocation against thee, and they stoned thee with stone, and they cut thee in pieces with their swords.
Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
And they shall bring upon thee a multitude, and they shall stone thee with stones, and shall slay thee with their swords.

Catholic Public Domain Version
And they will lead over you a multitude. And they will stone you with stones, and massacre you with their swords.

New American Bible
They shall lead an assembly against you to stone you and hack you to pieces with their swords.

New Revised Standard Version
They shall bring up a mob against you, and they shall stone you and cut you to pieces with their swords.
Translations from Aramaic
Lamsa Bible
They shall also bring up multitudes of people against you, and they shall stone you with stones, and thrust you through with their swords.

Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
And they shall bring up multitudes upon you, and they shall stone you with stones and they shall strike you with their swords
OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
They shall also bring up an assembly against thee, and they shall stone thee with stones, and thrust thee through with their swords.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
and they shall bring multitudes upon thee, and they shall stone thee with stones, and pierce thee with their swords.

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Judgment on Jerusalem
39Then I will deliver you into the hands of your lovers, and they will level your mounds and tear down your lofty shrines. They will strip off your clothes, take your fine jewelry, and leave you naked and bare. 40They will bring a mob against you, who will stone you and cut you to pieces with their swords. 41Then they will burn down your houses and execute judgment against you in the sight of many women. I will put an end to your prostitution, and you will never again pay your lovers.…

Cross References
Jeremiah 39:6-8
There at Riblah the king of Babylon slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and he also killed all the nobles of Judah. / Then he put out Zedekiah’s eyes and bound him with bronze chains to take him to Babylon. / 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.

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 2:21
Both young and old lie together in the dust of the streets. My young men and maidens have fallen by the sword. You have slain them in the day of Your anger; You have slaughtered them without compassion.

Jeremiah 52:10-11
There at Riblah the king of Babylon slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and he also killed all the officials of Judah. / Then he put out Zedekiah’s eyes, bound him with bronze shackles, and took him to Babylon, where he kept him in custody until his dying day.

2 Chronicles 36:17-19
So He brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans, who put their young men to the sword in the sanctuary, sparing neither young men nor young women, neither elderly nor infirm. God gave them all into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar, / who carried off everything to Babylon—all the articles of the house of God, both large and small, and the treasures of the house of the LORD and of the king and his officials. / Then the Chaldeans set fire to the house of God and broke down the wall of Jerusalem. They burned down all the palaces and destroyed every article of value.

Isaiah 3:25-26
Your men will fall by the sword, and your warriors in battle. / And the gates of Zion will lament and mourn; destitute, she will sit on the ground.

Hosea 2:3
Otherwise, I will strip her naked and expose her like the day of her birth. I will make her like a desert and turn her into a parched land, and I will let her die of thirst.

Jeremiah 4:30
And you, O devastated one, what will you do, though you dress yourself in scarlet, though you adorn yourself with gold jewelry, though you enlarge your eyes with paint? You adorn yourself in vain; your lovers despise you; they want to take your life.

Isaiah 47:3
Your nakedness will be uncovered and your shame will be exposed. I will take vengeance; I will spare no one.”

Micah 1:8
Because of this I will lament and wail; I will walk barefoot and naked. I will howl like a jackal and mourn like an ostrich.

Matthew 22:7
The king was enraged, and he sent his troops to destroy those murderers and burn their city.

Luke 19:43-44
For the days will come upon you when your enemies will barricade you and surround you and hem you in on every side. / They will level you to the ground—you and the children within your walls. They will not leave one stone on another, because you did not recognize the time of your visitation from God.”

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 18:8
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.”

Matthew 24:2
“Do you see all these things?” He replied. “Truly I tell you, not one stone here will be left on another; every one will be thrown down.”


Treasury of Scripture

They shall also bring up a company against you, and they shall stone you with stones, and thrust you through with their swords.

shall also

Habakkuk 1:6-10
For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land, to possess the dwellingplaces that are not theirs…

John 8:5-7
Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned: but what sayest thou? …

and thrust

Ezekiel 23:10,47
These discovered her nakedness: they took her sons and her daughters, and slew her with the sword: and she became famous among women; for they had executed judgment upon her…

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.

Jeremiah 25:9
Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the LORD, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations.

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Ezekiel 16
1. Under the parable of a wretched infant is shown the natural state of Jerusalem
6. God's extraordinary love toward her,
15. Her grievous judgment
35. Her sin, equal to her mother,
46. and exceeding her sisters, Sodom and Samaria,
59. calls for judgments
60. Mercy is promised her in the end














They will bring a mob against you
This phrase indicates a collective judgment and public condemnation. In the Hebrew context, the word for "mob" can be associated with a tumultuous assembly, often used in the context of divine judgment. Historically, this reflects the communal nature of justice in ancient Israel, where the community played a role in executing judgment. Theologically, it underscores the seriousness of Israel's unfaithfulness, as the "mob" represents the nations God uses as instruments of His judgment.

who will stone you
Stoning was a method of execution prescribed in the Mosaic Law for certain transgressions, such as idolatry and adultery (Deuteronomy 22:24). The Hebrew root for "stone" (סקל, saqal) conveys the idea of purging evil from the community. In this context, it symbolizes the severe consequences of Israel's spiritual adultery and idolatry. The act of stoning is both a literal and metaphorical representation of the community's rejection and God's righteous judgment.

and cut you to pieces with their swords
The imagery of being "cut to pieces" with swords is a graphic depiction of total destruction. The sword, in biblical symbolism, often represents divine judgment and warfare. The Hebrew word for "sword" (חרב, chereb) is frequently used in prophetic literature to denote God's instrument of judgment. Historically, this reflects the fate of Jerusalem at the hands of the Babylonians, who were God's appointed agents of judgment. Spiritually, it serves as a sobering reminder of the consequences of persistent rebellion against God.

Verse 40. - The punishment of stoning was, as a rule, inflicted by the "congregation" (Numbers 15:36), or by the men of the city (Leviticus 20:2). Other forms of punishement for impurity were those of the sword and burning, as in Leviticus 20:14; Leviticus 21:9. The thrusting through (better, hewing; the word is not found elsewhere) probably points to mutilation after death, as in the case of Agog (1 Samuel 15:33: comp. Judges 19:29; Daniel 2:5; Daniel 3:29). in this case the "congregation" or "company" is the army of the Chaldeans, and each form of punishment has its counterpart in the various agencies which they employed for the punishment of the city.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
They will bring
וְהֶעֱל֤וּ (wə·he·‘ĕ·lū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Conjunctive perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 5927: To ascend, in, actively

a mob
קָהָ֔ל (qā·hāl)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 6951: Assembly, convocation, congregation

against
עָלַ֙יִךְ֙ (‘ā·la·yiḵ)
Preposition | second person feminine singular
Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against

you to stone
וְרָגְמ֥וּ (wə·rā·ḡə·mū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 7275: To cast together, to lapidate

you
אוֹתָ֖ךְ (’ō·w·ṯāḵ)
Direct object marker | second person feminine singular
Strong's 853: Untranslatable mark of the accusative case

and cut you to pieces
וּבִתְּק֖וּךְ (ū·ḇit·tə·qūḵ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Conjunctive perfect - third person common plural | second person feminine singular
Strong's 1333: To cut, cut off, cut down

with their swords.
בְּחַרְבוֹתָֽם׃ (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


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