Ezekiel 6:5

And put the carcases of the sons of Israel before their idols, And scattered your bones round about your altars.

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

4And desolated have been your altars, And broken your images, And I have caused your wounded to fall before your idols,

6In all your dwellings the cities are laid waste, And the high places are desolate, So that waste and desolate are your altars, And broken and ceased have your idols, And cut down have been your images, And blotted out have been your works.

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Cross References

2 Kings 23:14And he hath broken in pieces the standing-pillars, and cutteth down the shrines, and filleth their place with bones of men;

Jeremiah 7:32Therefore, lo, days are coming, An affirmation of Jehovah, And it is not said any more, 'The Tophet,' And 'Valley of the son of Hinnom,' But 'Valley of the slaughter,' And they have buried in Tophet — without place.

Jeremiah 8:2And have spread them to sun, and to moon, And to all the host of the heavens, that they have loved, And that they have served, And that they have walked after, And that they have sought, And to which they have bowed themselves, They are not gathered, nor buried, They are for dung on the face of the ground.

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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