With stones... with swords. — The figure and the reality are here designedly mixed. Stoning was the legal punishment of adultery, but the actual overthrow of Jerusalem was by the sword.
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Ezekiel 23:47
47 And the company shall stone them with stones, and dispatchj them with their swords; they shall slay their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses with fire.