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Ezekiel 6:6

In 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 hewn down, and your works may be abolished.

American Standard Version

In The King James Version

In all your dwellingplaces 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 images may be cut down, and your works may be abolished.

In Context

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.

7And the slain shall fall in the midst of you, and ye shall know that I am Jehovah.

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Cross References

Leviticus 26:31And I will make your cities a waste, and will bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savor of your sweet odors.

Psalms 115:8They that make them shall be like unto them; Yea, every one that trusteth in them.

Isaiah 2:18And the idols shall utterly pass away.

Isaiah 6:11Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until cities be waste without inhabitant, and houses without man, and the land become utterly waste,

Isaiah 27:9Therefore by this shall the iniquity of Jacob be forgiven, and this is all the fruit of taking away his sin: that he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, [so that] the Asherim and the sun-images shall rise no more.

Isaiah 64:10Thy holy cities are become a wilderness, Zion is become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 6:2-8

The Destruction of Idolatry. ( b. c. 594.) 1 And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, 2 Son of man, set thy face toward the mountains of Israel, and prophesy against them, 3 And say, Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord God ; Thus saith the Lord God to the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys; Behold, I, even I, will bring a sword upon you, and I will destroy your high places. 4 And your altars shall be desolate, and your images shall be broken: and I will cast down… Read the whole commentary →

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