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with the judgment of adultresses, and the judgment
of those who shed blood, for such they really were.
(Ver. 45.)
Their judgment however should not slumber. The
adulterous woman must be stoned till she died. “ For
thus saith the Lord Jehovah, I will bring up a com­
pany upon them, and will give them to be removed and
spoiled. 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. Thus will I cause lewdness to cease
out of the laud, that all women may be taught not to
do after your lewdness. And they shall recompense
your lewdness upon you, and ye shall bear the sins of
your idols: and ye shall know that I am the Lord
Jehovah.” (Ver. 46—49.)

CHAPTER XXIV.
T h e new message of Jehovah has great peculiarity in
it in this respect that the prophet is directed to note
expressly the day, not as usually for a date of the com­
munication but also as the precise beginning of the
accomplishment of the prediction, the form of expressing
it being as before from Jehoiachin’s captivity. A higher
power it must have been to make known that the siege
commenced that very day : even the dullest would feel
this.
“ Again in the ninth year, in the tenth month, in the
tenth day of the month, the word of Jehovah came
unto me, saying, Son of man, write thee the name of
the day, even of this same day: the king of Babylon