Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 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.
Verse 47. Shall stone them with stones] As they did adulteresses under the law. See Le 20:10; De 22:22, compared with Joh 8:3.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
The company, Heb. congregation, the Babylonian army.
Stone them; the punishment of an adulteress; and this was in a manner done when the engines, which cast mighty stones into the besieged city, dashed out the brains of some, and when chimneys, or walls, or towers, beat down by those stones cast out of the engines, fell on others, and buried them alive.
Despatch them with their swords: some of them who escaped the stones fell under the sword of the Babylonian soldier.
Slay their sons; either in fight, or when they break into the city, or light on them wandering on mountains, or hiding in dens and caves.
And their daughters; either in sacking the city, when they regard no sex, or because they choose to die rather than yield to the lust of those vile ones.
Burn up their houses; as the cities, and houses abroad in the country; so the Babylonish army destroyed what they could not carry away with them, as Eze 23:25.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
47. stonesthe legal penaltyof the adulteress (Eze 16:40;Eze 16:41; Joh 8:5).Answering to the stones hurled by the Babylonians from enginesin besieging Jerusalem.
houses . . . firefulfilled(2Ch 36:17; 2Ch 36:19).
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
And the company shall stone them with stones,…. Which was the punishment of adulterers and idolaters, De 13:10, this seems to refer to the Chaldean army casting out stones from their slings and engines into the city of Jerusalem, when they besieged it, by which they killed some, and beat down the houses, which fell upon others, and destroyed them. So the Targum,
“and the army shall stone them with the stones of a sling:”
and dispatch them with their swords; cut them in pieces with them, such as sallied out of the city upon them, or they found without, or by any means fell into their hands:
they shall slay their sons and their daughters; when they broke into the city, and took it; or when they found them making their escape, and hiding themselves in secret places:
and burn up their houses with fire; as they did; the temple, the king’s palace, the houses of noblemen, and all the houses in Jerusalem; see Jer 52:13.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(47) With stones . . . with swords.The figure and the reality are here designedly mixed. Stoning was the legal punishment of adultery, but the actual overthrow of Jerusalem was by the sword.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
“And the gathering (of men) will stone them with stones, and despatch them with swords. They will slay their sons and their daughters and burn their houses with fire.”
The gathering of men turn out to be the approaching enemy. Their end is near. There is a multiple implication here. Stoning with stones was the fate decreed for an adulteress (Deu 22:21-24). and for an idolater (Deu 13:10; Deu 17:5; Lev 20:2; Num 14:10). It was also the means by which a besieged city was attacked with missiles. All three applied to Samaria and Jerusalem. The despatching with swords then follows the missile attacks, followed by slaughter and destructive fire. The ‘sons and daughters’ refer to the people of Jerusalem and Samaria and the attached villages. It had already happened to Samaria, now it would happen to Jerusalem.
Fuente: Commentary Series on the Bible by Peter Pett
Eze 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.
Ver. 47. And the company shall stone them. ] As by the law they did adulteresses.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
the company: Eze 23:25, Eze 23:29, Eze 9:6, Eze 16:41, Jer 33:4, Jer 33:5
dispatch them: or, single them out, Eze 24:6
shall slay: Eze 24:21, 2Ch 36:17-19
and burn: Deu 13:16, Jer 39:8, Jer 52:13
Reciprocal: Psa 106:37 – they sacrificed Jer 4:31 – because Eze 5:17 – and I Eze 16:27 – delivered Eze 16:40 – and thrust Eze 22:15 – consume Eze 23:10 – they took Eze 24:11 – that the filthiness Hos 8:10 – now Joh 8:5 – Moses
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Eze 23:47. The things predicted here actually came to pass according to the historical account, given in 2 Kings 25 th chapter.