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Ezekiel 23

Ezek. 23:47 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And the company
qahal (Hebrew #6951)
assemblage (usually concretely)
KJV usage: assembly, company, congregation, multitude.
Pronounce: kaw-hawl'
Origin: from 6950
shall stone
ragam (Hebrew #7275)
to cast together (stones), i.e. to lapidate
KJV usage: X certainly, stone.
Pronounce: raw-gam'
Origin: a primitive root (compare 7263, 7321, 7551)
them with stones
'eben (Hebrew #68)
a stone
KJV usage: + carbuncle, + mason, + plummet, (chalk-, hail-, head-, sling-)stone(-ny), (divers) weight(-s).
Pronounce: eh'-ben
Origin: from the root of 1129 through the meaning to build
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bara' (Hebrew #1254)
(absolutely) to create; (qualified) to cut down (a wood), select, feed (as formative processes)
KJV usage: choose, create (creator), cut down, dispatch, do, make (fat).
Pronounce: baw-raw'
Origin: a primitive root
them with their swords
chereb (Hebrew #2719)
drought; also a cutting instrument (from its destructive effect), as a knife, sword, or other sharp implement
KJV usage: axe, dagger, knife, mattock, sword, tool.
Pronounce: kheh'-reb
Origin: from 2717
; they shall slay
harag (Hebrew #2026)
to smite with deadly intent
KJV usage: destroy, out of hand, kill, murder(-er), put to (death), make (slaughter), slay(-er), X surely.
Pronounce: haw-rag'
Origin: a primitive root
u their sons
ben (Hebrew #1121)
a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or condition, etc., (like 1, 251, etc.))
KJV usage: + afflicted, age, (Ahoh-) (Ammon-) (Hachmon-) (Lev-)ite, (anoint-)ed one, appointed to, (+) arrow, (Assyr-) (Babylon-) (Egypt-) (Grec-)ian, one born, bough, branch, breed, + (young) bullock, + (young) calf, X came up in, child, colt, X common, X corn, daughter, X of first, + firstborn, foal, + very fruitful, + postage, X in, + kid, + lamb, (+) man, meet, + mighty, + nephew, old, (+) people, + rebel, + robber, X servant born, X soldier, son, + spark, + steward, + stranger, X surely, them of, + tumultuous one, + valiant(-est), whelp, worthy, young (one), youth.
Pronounce: bane
Origin: from {SI 11129}1129{/SI}
and their daughters
bath (Hebrew #1323)
a daughter (used in the same wide sense as other terms of relationship, literally and figuratively)
KJV usage: apple (of the eye), branch, company, daughter, X first, X old, + owl, town, village.
Pronounce: bath
Origin: from 1129 (as feminine of 1121)
, and burn up
saraph (Hebrew #8313)
to be (causatively, set) on fire
KJV usage: (cause to, make a) burn((-ing), up) kindle, X utterly.
Pronounce: saw-raf'
Origin: a primitive root
their houses
bayith (Hebrew #1004)
a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)
KJV usage: court, daughter, door, + dungeon, family, + forth of, X great as would contain, hangings, home(born), (winter)house(-hold), inside(-ward), palace, place, + prison, + steward, + tablet, temple, web, + within(-out).
Pronounce: bah'-yith
Origin: probably from 1129 abbreviated
with fire
'esh (Hebrew #784)
fire (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: burning, fiery, fire, flaming, hot.
Pronounce: aysh
Origin: a primitive word
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or, single them out.
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Ezek. 24:21• 21Speak 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. (Ezek. 24:21)
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2 Chron. 36:17,19• 17Therefore 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.
 19And 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. (2 Chron. 36:17,19)

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Cross References

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the company.
Ezek. 23:25,29• 25And 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.
 29And they shall deal with thee hatefully, and shall take away all thy labor, and shall leave thee naked and bare: and the nakedness of thy whoredoms shall be discovered, both thy lewdness and thy whoredoms. (Ezek. 23:25,29)
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Ezek. 9:6• 6Slay 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. (Ezek. 9:6)
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Ezek. 16:41• 41And 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. (Ezek. 16:41)
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Jer. 33:4‑5• 4For 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;
 5They 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. (Jer. 33:4‑5)
dispatch them.
or, single them out.
Ezek. 24:6• 6Wherefore 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. (Ezek. 24:6)
shall slay.
Ezek. 24:21• 21Speak 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. (Ezek. 24:21)
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2 Chron. 36:17‑19• 17Therefore 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.
 18And 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.
 19And 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. (2 Chron. 36:17‑19)
and burn.
Deut. 13:16• 16And 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. (Deut. 13:16)
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Jer. 39:8• 8And the Chaldeans burned the king's house, and the houses of the people, with fire, and brake down the walls of Jerusalem. (Jer. 39:8)
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Jer. 52:13• 13And 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: (Jer. 52:13)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And the assemblage shall stone them with stones, and despatch themh with their swords; they shall kill their sons and their daughters, and burn their houses with fire.

JND Translation Notes

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h
Or "hew them in pieces." cf. 21.19, Note.