And put forward to them (and tell them), by way of a story (with a warning), about the companions of the City (which was destroyed). When the messengers (of Allah) have come to it
And narrate to them the (legendary) example of the people of a city (Antioch—an ancient city in Northern Syria) when there came to them some Messengers
And put forward to them a similitude; the (story of the) dwellers of the town, (It is said that the town was Antioch (Antakiya)), when there came Messengers to them
Give them the example of the people of that city to which the Rasuls had come.
Sayyed Abbas Sadr-Ameli
And coin for them a similitude of the people of the town, when the messengers came to it.
Al-muntakhab fi tafsir al-Qur'an al-Karim
And cite to them the inhabitants of the town to whom We sent Our Messengers, an example by way of a parable, by which moral and spiritual relations are typically set forth