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Ezekiel 6:4

Ezekiel 6:4
And your altars shall be desolate, and your images shall be broken: and I will cast down your slain men before your idols.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

And I will lay the dead carcasses of the children of Israel before their idols,.... Which is repeated for the confirmation of it:

and I will scatter your bones round about your altars: which were…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

Images - See the margin and margin reference, and the Eze 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…

Methodist theologian, 1762–1832

Adam Clarke

Your images shall be broken - Literally, your sun images; representations of the sun, which they worshipped. See the margin.

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Ezekiel 6:1-7

Here, I. The prophecy is directed to the mountains of Israel (Eze 6:1, Eze 6:2); the prophet must set his face towards them. If he could see so far off as the land of Israel, the mountains of that…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

your images As marg., sun-images, i.e. symbols of the sun-god, probably in the shape of a pyramid or obelisk. They stood beside the altars. So again Eze 6:6.

your idols The term used is an opprobrious…