Ezekiel 6:7

7 Corpses everywhere you look! Then you'll know that I am God.

Ezekiel 6:7 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 6:7

And the slain shall fall in the midst of you
The word for slain is in the singular number, which perhaps is put for the plural; and so the Septuagint renders it; unless it should design some principal person that should be slain; but, as King Zedekiah was not slain when the city was taken, only his sons and his princes, it seems best to understand it of the multitude that were slain in the midst of the land, not only in Jerusalem, but in all the cities of Judea; and denotes how general and public the destruction would be: and ye shall know that I [am] the Lord;
the only true God, and Governor of the world; who only is to be worshipped, feared, and served, and not idols.

Ezekiel 6:7 In-Context

5 I'll stack the dead bodies of Israelites in front of your idols and then scatter your bones around your shrines.

6 Every place where you've lived, the towns will be torn down and the pagan shrines demolished - altars busted up, idols smashed, all your custom-made sun-god pillars in ruins.

7 Corpses everywhere you look! Then you'll know that I am God.

8 "'But I'll let a few escape the killing as you are scattered through other lands and nations.

9 In the foreign countries where they're taken as prisoners of war, they'll remember me. They'll realize how devastated I was by their betrayals, by their voracious lust for gratifying themselves in their idolatries. They'll be disgusted with their evil ways, disgusting to God in the way they've lived.