Ezekiel 16 · Verse 40

Ezekiel 16:40

They shall also bring up a company against thee, and they shall stone thee with stones, and thrust thee through with their swords.
Ezekiel 16:40, King James Version

Ezekiel 16:40 in other translations

BSBThey will bring a mob against you, who will stone you and cut you to pieces with their swords.
WEBThey will also bring up a company against you, and they will stone you with stones, and thrust you through with their swords.
ASVThey shall also bring up a company against thee, and they shall stone thee with stones, and thrust thee through with their swords.
YLTAnd have caused an assembly to come up against thee, And stoned thee with stones, And thrust thee through with their swords,
DARBYAnd they shall bring up an assemblage against thee, and they shall stone thee with stones, and thrust thee through with their swords.
BBEAnd they will get together a meeting against you, stoning you with stones and wounding you with their swords.
WebsterThey shall also bring up a company against thee, and they shall stone thee with stones, and thrust thee through with their swords.

What does Ezekiel 16:40 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Ezekiel 16:38-40

38-40. judge thee, as women that break wedlock--(Le 20:10; compare Eze 16:2). In the case of individual adulteresses, stoning was the penalty (Joh 8:4, 5). In the case of communities, the sword. Also apostasy (De 13:10) and sacrificing children to Molech (Le 20:1-5) incurred stoning. Thus the penalty was doubly due to Israel; so the other which was decreed against an apostate city (De 13:15, 16) is added, "they…

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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Ezekiel 16:1-58

A parable showing the first low estate of the Jewish nation, its prosperity, idolatries, and punishment. Verses 1-58 In this chapter God's dealings with the Jewish nation, and their conduct towards him, are described, and their punishment through the surrounding nations, even those they most trusted in. This is done under the parable of an exposed infant rescued from death, educated, espoused, and richly provided…

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Ezekiel 16:40 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וְהֶעֱל֤וּve.he.'e.Luand they will bring upH5927
עָלַ֙יִךְ֙'a.La.yikhon youH5921
קָהָ֔לka.Hala companyH6951
וְרָגְמ֥וּve.ra.ge.Muand they will stoneH7275
אוֹתָ֖ךְ'o.Takh<obj.> youH853
בָּאָ֑בֶןba.'A.venwith <the> stone[s]H68
וּבִתְּק֖וּךְu.vi.te.Kukhand they will cut to pieces youH1333
בְּחַרְבוֹתָֽם\׃be.char.vo.Tamwith swords theirH2719

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Ezekiel 16:40

  • Ezekiel 23:47

    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.

  • 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. They are terrible and dreadful: their judgment and their dignity shall proceed of themselves. Their horses also are swifter than the leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves: and their horsemen shall spread themselves, and their horsemen shall come from far; they shall fly as the eagle that hasteth to eat. They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up as the east wind, and they shall gather the captivity as the sand. …

  • John 8:5-7

    Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned: but what sayest thou? This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not. So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.

  • Ezekiel 23:10

    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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
shall also.
Hab 1:6-10; Joh 8:5-7
and thrust.
23:10,47; 24:21; Jer 25:9

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Context

  • Ezekiel 16:39

    And I will also give thee into their hand, and they shall throw down thine eminent place, and shall break down thy high places: they shall strip thee also of thy clothes, and shall take thy fair jewels, and leave thee naked and bare.

  • Ezekiel 16:40

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

  • 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.

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Ezekiel 16:40 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Y harán subir contra ti reunión de gente, y te apedrearán con piedras, y te atravesarán con sus espadas.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Et on fera monter contre toi un rassemblement d’hommes, et ils te lapideront avec des pierres, et te transperceront avec leurs épées;
German
Elberfelder 1871
Und sie werden eine Versammlung wider dich heraufführen und dich steinigen, und werden dich mit ihren Schwertern durchbohren.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
et adducent super te multitudinem, et lapidabunt te lapidibus, et trucidabunt te gladiis suis: