And the host shall stone them and cut them down with their swords. They shall kill their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses.
Jerusalem pleads innocence, I am not polluted, but the facts convict her utterly. She revoked her oath to her sovereign Lord, kept league with His enemies, and trampled His crown. Now those very lovers she courted will execute her sentence; sinful affection breeds hatred swift as Amnon's did toward Tamar. The passionate fool swings from extreme to extreme.
AI summary
Commenting on Ezekiel 23:22-49
The Chaldean army does the stoning: their slingers cast stones upon Jerusalem as the law cast stones upon adulterers and idolaters. They cut down those who sally forth. They slay sons and daughters when the city falls. They burn the houses, temple, palace, all of it, as judgment demands.
AI summary
stones--the legal penalty of the adulteress (Eze 16:40-41; Joh 8:5). Answering to the stones hurled by the Babylonians from engines in besieging Jerusalem. houses . . . fire--fulfilled (Ch2 36:17, Ch2 36:19).