Matthew Poole and continuators on Ezekiel 23:47

47 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.

Congregation, Hebr. the Babylonian Army.

The Punishment of an Adulteress, and this was in manner done, when the Engines, which cast mighty stones into the besieged City, dasht 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,

Some of them, who scaped the stones, fell under the Sword.

Of the Babylonian Souldier.

Either in Fight, or when they break into the City, or light on them wandring on Mountains, or hiding in Dens, and Caves.

Either in sacking the City, when they regard no Sex, or because they choose to dye, rather than yield to the lust of those vile ones.

As the Cities, and Houses abroad in the Countrey; so the Babylonish Army destroyed what they could not carry away with them; as verse 25. let. a.

Marginal references: Or, single them out.