🔥WEB · Ezekiel 23:47
What does Ezekiel 23:47 mean?
"The 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."
— Ezekiel 23:47 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
They went in to her, as they go in to a prostitute. So they went in to Oholah and to Oholibah, the lewd women.
Righteous men will judge them with the judgment of adulteresses and with the judgment of women who shed blood; because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands.
“For thus says the Lord Yahweh: ‘I will bring up a mob against them, and will give them to be tossed back and forth and robbed.
The 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.
“‘Thus I will cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught not to be lewd like you.
They will recompense your lewdness on you, and you will bear the sins of your idols. Then you will know that I am the Lord Yahweh.’”
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