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The company, Heb. congregation, the Babylonian army.
Stone them; the punishment of an adulteress; and this was in a manner done when the engines, which cast mighty stones into the besieged city, dashed out the brains of some, and when chimneys, or walls, or towers, beat down by those stones cast out of the engines, fell on others, and buried them alive.
Despatch them with their swords: some of them who escaped the stones fell under the sword of the Babylonian soldier.
Slay their sons; either in fight, or when they break into the city, or light on them wandering on mountains, or hiding in dens and caves.
And their daughters; either in sacking the city, when they regard no sex, or because they choose to die rather than yield to the lust of those vile ones.
Burn up their houses; as the cities, and houses abroad in the country; so the Babylonish army destroyed what they could not carry away with them, as Eze_23:25.