Ezekiel 16:40
What does Ezekiel 16:40 mean?
A plain-English look at Ezekiel 16:40 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000They shall also bring up a company against thee, and they shall stone thee with stones, and thrust thee through with their swords.
KJV
King James Version · 1611They shall also bring up a company against thee, and they shall stone thee with stones, and thrust thee through with their swords.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901They shall also bring up a company against thee, and they shall stone thee with stones, and thrust thee through with their swords.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949And they will get together a meeting against you, stoning you with stones and wounding you with their swords.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862And have caused an assembly to come up against thee, And stoned thee with stones, And thrust thee through with their swords,
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752And they shall bring upon thee a multitude, and they shall stone thee with stones, and shall slay thee with their swords.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890And they shall bring up an assemblage against thee, and they shall stone thee with stones, and thrust thee through with their swords.
Context
v.39I will also give thee into their hand, and they shall throw down thy vaulted place, and break down thy lofty places; and they shall strip thee of thy clothes, and take thy fair jewels; and they shall leave thee naked and bare.
v.40This passage
v.41And they shall burn thy 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 shalt also give no hire any more.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Ezekiel 23:10
These uncovered her nakedness; they took her sons and her daughters; and her they slew with the sword: and she became a byword among women; for they executed judgments upon her.
- Jeremiah 25:9
behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith Jehovah, and I will send unto 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 I will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and a hissing, and perpetual desolations.
- Ezekiel 24:21
Speak unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the pride of your power, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pitieth; and your sons and your daughters whom ye have left behind shall fall by the sword.
- Ezekiel 23:47
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.
- John 8:5
Now in the law Moses commanded us to stone such: what then sayest thou of her?
- Habakkuk 1:6
For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, that march through the breadth of the earth, to possess dwelling-places that are not theirs.
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