John Gill Commentary


John Gill Commentary
"They shall also bring up a company against thee, and they shall stone thee with stones, and thrust thee through with their swords." — Ezekiel 16:40 (ASV)
They shall also bring up a company against thee
An army, so the Targum; the Chaldean army: and they shall stone thee with stones :
cast out of their engines and slings, by which they battered the walls, as well as killed the inhabitants; and so the Targum renders it, with sling stones; the allusion is to the stoning of adulterous persons, (Deuteronomy 22:24) (John 8:5) ; and thrust thee through with their swords ;
such as attempted to escape out of the city, or fell into the hands of the enemy when it was taken, were slain with the sword.