They will also bring up a company against you, and they will stone you with stones, and thrust you through with their swords.
Parallel translations
- KJV They shall also bring up a company against thee, and they shall stone thee with stones, and thrust thee through with their swords.
- BSB They will bring a mob against you, who will stone you and cut you to pieces with their swords.
- NKJV “They shall also bring up an assembly against you, and they shall stone you with stones and thrust you through with their swords.
- NASB They will incite a crowd against you, and they will stone you and cut you to pieces with their swords.
- NLT They will band together in a mob to stone you and cut you up with swords.
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- Ezek 23:47The 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.
- Hab 1:6–10For, behold, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, that march through the width of the earth, to possess dwelling places that are not theirs.
- Jer 25:9behold, I will send and take all the families of the north,” says Yahweh, “and I will send to Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against its inhabitants, and against all these nations around. I will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and a hissing, and perpetual desolations.
- Ezek 24:21Speak to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the pride of your power, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pities; and your sons and your daughters whom you have left behind shall fall by the sword.
- Ezek 23:10These uncovered her nakedness. They took her sons and her daughters; and they killed her with the sword. She became a byword among women; for they executed judgments on her.
- John 8:5–7Now in our law, Moses commanded us to stone such women. What then do you say about her?”
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