Ezequiel 6:13

13 Então sabereis que eu sou o Senhor, quando os seus mortos estiverem estendidos no meio dos seus ídolos, em redor dos seus altares, em todo outeiro alto, em todos os cumes dos montes, e debaixo de toda árvore verde, e debaixo de todo carvalho frondoso, lugares onde ofereciam suave cheiro a todos os seus ídolos.

Ezequiel 6:13 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 6:13

Then shall ye know that I [am] the Lord
Whom they had denied, by serving other gods; but now by those punishments their eyes would be opened to see, and be obliged to acknowledge, that there was no God but the Lord: when their slain [men] shall be among their idols round about their
altars;
as is threatened, ( Ezekiel 6:5 ) ; by which it will appear that the idols whom they worshipped could not save them; since they should fall just by them, round about the altars on which they sacrificed unto them; which idols were placed, and altars for their worship built, upon every high hill, in all the tops of the mountains:
mountains and high hills were usual places of idolatry among the Heathens, in which the Jews imitated them, and particularly Herodotus F5 says of the Persians, that, going up to the highest parts of mountains, they offered sacrifice to Jupiter; so they called the whole circle of the heavens: and under every green tree, and under every thick oak;
see ( 1 Kings 14:23 ) ( 2 Kings 16:4 ) ( Jeremiah 2:20 ) ( 3:6 ) ; here their slain were to fall, where they committed their idolatry: even in the place where they did offer sweet savour to all their idols;
or dunghill gods; yet, though they were such, sweet savour or incense was offered to them; wherefore, in righteous judgment, here their carcasses should fill and lie, and rot and stink.


FOOTNOTES:

F5 Clio, sive l. 1. c. 131.

Ezequiel 6:13 In-Context

11 Assim diz o Senhor Deus: Bate com a mão, e bate com o teu pé, e dize: Ah! por causa de todas as péssimas abominações da casa de Israel; pois eles cairão � espada, e de fome, e de peste.
12 O que estiver longe morrerá de peste; e, o que está perto cairá � espada; e o que ficar de resto e cercado morrerá de fome; assim cumprirei o meu furor contra eles.
13 Então sabereis que eu sou o Senhor, quando os seus mortos estiverem estendidos no meio dos seus ídolos, em redor dos seus altares, em todo outeiro alto, em todos os cumes dos montes, e debaixo de toda árvore verde, e debaixo de todo carvalho frondoso, lugares onde ofereciam suave cheiro a todos os seus ídolos.
14 E estenderei a minha mão sobre eles, e farei a terra desolada e erma, em todas as suas habitações; desde o deserto até Dibla; e saberão que eu sou o Senhor.
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