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Ezekiel 23:47

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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.
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  1. Ezekiel 16:40–41Rank 1 from verse 47
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    40They shall also bring up a company against thee, and they shall stone thee with stones, and thrust thee through with their swords.

    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.

  2. Ezekiel 24:21Rank 2 from verse 47
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    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.

  3. Jeremiah 39:8Rank 3 from verse 47
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    8¶ And the Chaldeans burned the king’s house, and the houses of the people, with fire, and brake down the walls of Jerusalem.

  4. 2 Chronicles 36:17–19Rank 4 from verse 47
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    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.

  5. Deuteronomy 13:16Rank 5 from verse 47
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    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.

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Ezekiel 23:47

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company

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1. A group, body, assembly, or number gathered or associated together. 2. Companionship or association; to associate with.

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shall

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An auxiliary verb expressing future action, intention, promise, command, requirement, or determination.

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stone

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Sense 1: A piece or mass of rock. Sense 2: To strike or kill with stones.

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burn

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Sense 1: To consume, injure, heat, dry, or harden by fire or intense heat. Sense 2: To be on fire.

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houses

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Buildings or dwelling places; by extension, the families, households, estates, possessions, royal lines, or bodies of people associated with them.

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fire

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Burning flame and heat that gives light, consumes, purifies, or destroys.

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46For thus saith the Lord God; I will bring up a company upon them, and will give them to be removed and spoiled.

47And 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.

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48Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught not to do after your lewdness.

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