Skip to content

Ezekiel 6:5

Ezekiel 6:5
And I will lay the dead carcases of the children of Israel before their idols; and I will scatter your bones round about your altars.

My Notes

Commentary

Trusted original commentary from respected historical Bible scholars and theologians.

Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

In all your dwelling places your cities shall be laid waste,.... Which denotes that the desolation should be general, wherever they had cities and places to dwell in; the idolatry being universal, as…

Methodist theologian, 1762–1832

Adam Clarke

Will scatter your bones round about your altars - This was literally fulfilled by the Chaldeans. According to Baruch, 2:24, 25, they opened the sepulchres of the principal people, and threw the bones…

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

The same had already been threatened by Jer 8:1-2.

Cross References

Related passages throughout Scripture