Ezekiel 16:40
Good News Translation
"They will stir up a crowd to stone you, and they will cut you to pieces with their swords.

New Revised Standard Version
They shall bring up a mob against you, and they shall stone you and cut you to pieces with their swords.

Contemporary English Version
Your lovers and an angry mob will stone you to death; they will cut your dead body into pieces

New American Bible
They shall lead an assembly against you to stone you and hack you to pieces with their swords.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they shall bring upon thee a multitude, and they shall stone thee with stones, and shall slay thee with their swords.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And they shall bring upon thee a multitude, and they shall stone thee with stones, and shall slay thee with their swords.

shall also

Habakkuk 1:6-10 For behold, I will raise up the Chaldeans, a bitter and swift nation, marching upon the breadth of the earth, to possess the dwelling places that are not their own. . . .

John 8:5-7 Now Moses in the law commanded us to stone such a one. But what sayest thou? . . .

and thrust

Ezekiel 23:10,47 They discovered her disgrace, took away her sons and daughters, and slew her with the sword: and they became infamous women, and they executed judgments in her. . . .

Ezekiel 24:21 Speak to the house of Israel: Thus saith the Lord God: Behold I will profane my sanctuary, the glory of your realm, and the thing that your eyes desire, and for which your soul feareth: your sons, and your daughters, whom you have left, shall fall by the sword.

Jeremiah 25:9 Behold I will send, and take all the kindreds of the north, saith the Lord, and Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon my servant: and I will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all the nations that are round about it: and I will destroy them, and make them an astonishment and a hissing, and perpetual desolations.

Context
Judgment on Jerusalem
39And I will deliver thee into their hands, and they shall destroy thy brothel house, and throw down thy stews: and they shall strip thee of thy garments, and shall take away the vessels of thy beauty: and leave thee naked, and full of disgrace. 40And they shall bring upon thee a multitude, and they shall stone thee with stones, and shall slay thee with their swords.41And they shall burn thy houses with fire, and shall execute judgments upon thee in the sight of many women: and thou shalt cease from fornication, and shalt give no hire any more.…
Cross References
Ezekiel 23:47
And let the people stone them with stone, and let them be stabbed with their swords: they shall kill their sons and daughters, and their houses they shall burn with fire.

Habakkuk 1:6
For behold, I will raise up the Chaldeans, a bitter and swift nation, marching upon the breadth of the earth, to possess the dwelling places that are not their own.

Ezekiel 16:39
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