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Ezekiel 6:4
4And your altars shall be desolate, and your sun-images shall be broken; and I will cast down your slain [men] before your idols;
Ezekiel 6:4 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And your altars shall be desolate, and your images shall be broken: and I will cast down your slain men before your idols.
- New International Version (NIV)Your altars will be demolished and your incense altars will be smashed; and I will slay your people in front of your idols.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Your altars shall become desolate, and your incense altars shall be broken, and I will cast down your slain before your idols.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Then your altars shall be desolate, your incense altars shall be broken, and I will cast down your slain men before your idols.
Context of Ezekiel 6:4
2Son of man, set thy face toward the mountains of Israel, and prophesy against them, 3and say, Mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord Jehovah: thus saith the Lord Jehovah to the mountains and to the hills, to the water-courses and to the valleys: Behold, I, [even] I, do bring a sword upon you, and will destroy your high places. And your altars shall be desolate, and your sun-images shall be broken; and I will cast down your slain [men] before your idols; 5and I will lay the dead bodies of the children of Israel before their idols; and I will scatter your bones round about your altars. 6In all your dwelling-places the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate; that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, and your idols may be broken and cease, and your sun-images may be cut down, and your works may be abolished.
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וְנָשַׁ֙מּוּ֙ מִזְבְּח֣וֹתֵיכֶ֔ם וְנִשְׁבְּר֖וּ חַמָּֽנֵיכֶ֑ם וְהִפַּלְתִּי֙ חַלְלֵיכֶ֔ם לִפְנֵ֖י גִּלּוּלֵיכֶֽם׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Ezekiel 6:4
- Ezekiel 6:6In all your dwelling-places the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate; that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, and your idols may be broken and cease, and your sun-images may be cut down, and your works may be abolished.
- 2 Chronicles 14:5And he removed out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the sun-images; and the kingdom was quiet before him.
- 2 Chronicles 34:4And they broke down the altars of the Baals in his presence; and the sun-pillars that were on high above them he cut down; and the Asherahs and the graven images and the molten images he broke in pieces, and made dust [of them] and strewed it upon the graves of those that had sacrificed to them;
- Jeremiah 43:13And he shall break the pillars of Beth-shemesh, which is in the land of Egypt; and the houses of the gods of Egypt shall he burn with fire.
- Ezekiel 6:5and I will lay the dead bodies of the children of Israel before their idols; and I will scatter your bones round about your altars.
- Leviticus 26:30And I will lay waste your high places, and cut down your sun-pillars, and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols; and my soul shall abhor you.
- 1 Kings 13:2And he cried against the altar by the word of Jehovah, and said, O altar, altar! thus saith Jehovah: Behold, a child shall be born unto the house of David, Josiah by name; and upon thee shall he sacrifice the priests of the high places that burn incense upon thee, and men's bones shall be burned upon thee.
- 2 Kings 23:14And he broke in pieces the columns, and cut down the Asherahs, and filled their place with the bones of men.
- 2 Chronicles 34:5and he burned the bones of the priests upon their altars, and purged Judah and Jerusalem.
- Jeremiah 8:1At that time, saith Jehovah, they shall bring forth the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves;
Commentaries on Ezekiel 6:4
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 4Your images shall be broken - Literally, your sun images; representations of the sun, which they worshipped. See the margin.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 4Images - See the margin and margin reference, and the Ezekiel 8:16 note. Idols - The Phoenicians were in the habit of setting up “heaps” or “pillars” of stone in honor of their gods, which renders the use of the word more appropriate.Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 4-7The corpses and bones of dead worshipers around an altar would make the altar ceremonially unclean and unfit for use. idols: The Hebrew word translated idols literally means “round things.” It may also sound like a word for dung (human or animal waste). When the prophets used this word, they were mocking the idols. It was a strong expression of disgust and rejection.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 44. images--called so from a Hebrew root, "to wax hot," implying the mad ardor of Israel after idolatry [Calvin]. Others translate it, "sun images"; and so in Eze 6:6 (see 2Ki 23:11; 2Ch 34:4; Is 17:8, Margin). cast your slain men before your idols--The foolish objects of their trust in the day of evil should witness their ruin.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Ezekiel 6
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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