Ezekiel 23 · Verse 47

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.
Ezekiel 23:47, King James Version

Ezekiel 23:47 in other translations

BSBThe mob will stone them and cut them down with their swords. They will kill their sons and daughters and burn down their houses.
WEBThe 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.
ASVAnd 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.
YLTAnd 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.
DARBYAnd 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.
BBEAnd 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.
WebsterAnd 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.

What does Ezekiel 23:47 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
47. stones--the legal penalty of the adulteress (Eze 16:40, 41; Joh 8:5). Answering to the stones hurled by the Babylonians from engines in besieging Jerusalem. houses ... fire--fulfilled (2Ch 36:17, 19).

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 47 Shall stone them with stones - As they did adulteresses under the law. See Lev 20:10; Deu 22:22, compared with Joh 8:3.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Ezekiel 23:47 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.

וְרָגְמ֨וּve.ra.ge.Muand they will stoneH7275
עֲלֵיהֶ֥ן'a.lei.Henon themH5921
אֶ֙בֶן֙'e.venstone[s]H68
קָהָ֔לka.Hal[the] companyH6951
וּבָרֵ֥אu.va.Re'and they will cut downH1254
אוֹתְהֶ֖ן'ot.Hen<obj.> themH853
בְּחַרְבוֹתָ֑םbe.char.vo.Tamwith swords theirH2719
בְּנֵיהֶ֤םbe.nei.Hemsons theirH1121
וּבְנֽוֹתֵיהֶם֙u.ve.no.tei.Hemand daughters theirH1323
יַהֲרֹ֔גוּya.ha.Ro.guthey will killH2026
וּבָתֵּיהֶ֖ןu.va.tei.Henand houses theirH1004
בָּאֵ֥שׁba.'Eshwith <the> fireH784
יִשְׂרֹֽפוּ\׃yis.Ro.futhey will burnH8313

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

Cross references for Ezekiel 23:47

  • 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.

  • Ezekiel 16:40-41

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

  • 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.

  • Ezekiel 23:29

    And they shall deal with thee hatefully, and shall take away all thy labour, and shall leave thee naked and bare: and the nakedness of thy whoredoms shall be discovered, both thy lewdness and thy whoredoms.

  • 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.

  • 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:

  • 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.

  • Jeremiah 33:4-5

    For thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel, concerning the houses of this city, and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah, which are thrown down by the mounts, and by the sword; They come to fight with the Chaldeans, but it is to fill them with the dead bodies of men, whom I have slain in mine anger and in my fury, and for all whose wickedness I have hid my face from this city.

  • 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.

  • Ezekiel 23:25

    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.

  • 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 all the vessels of the house of God, great and small, and the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king, and of his princes; all these he brought to Babylon. And they burnt the house of God, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem, and burnt all the palaces thereof with fire, and destroyed all the goodly vessels thereof.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
the company.
25,29; 9:6; 16:41; Jer 33:4,5
dispatch them. or, single them out.
24:6
shall slay.
24:21; 2Ch 36:17-19
and burn.
De 13:16; Jer 39:8; 52:13

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Context

  • Ezekiel 23:46

    For thus saith the Lord God; I will bring up a company upon them, and will give them to be removed and spoiled.

  • 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.

  • Ezekiel 23:48

    Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught not to do after your lewdness.

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Ezekiel 23:47 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Y la compañía de gentes las apedreará con piedras, y las acuchillará con sus espadas: matarán á sus hijos y á sus hijas, y sus casas consumirán con fuego.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		et le rassemblement les lapidera avec des pierres, et ils les transperceront avec leurs épées; ils tueront leurs fils et leurs filles, et ils brûleront leurs maisons par le feu.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Und die Versammlung wird sie steinigen und sie mit ihren Schwertern zerhauen; ihre Söhne und ihre Töchter wird sie töten und ihre Häuser mit Feuer verbrennen.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Et lapidentur lapidibus populorum, et confodiantur gladiis eorum: filios et filias earum interficient, et domos earum igne succendent.