Ezekiel 6:4

4 Your altars will be demolished and your incense altars will be smashed; and I will slay your people in front of your idols.

Ezekiel 6:4 in Other Translations

4 And your altars shall be desolate, and your images shall be broken: and I will cast down your slain men before your idols.

4 Your altars shall become desolate, and your incense altars shall be broken, and I will cast down your slain before your idols.

4 All your altars will be demolished, and your places of worship will be destroyed. I will kill your people in front of your idols.

4 I'll level your altars, bust up your sun-god pillars, and kill your people as they bow down to your no-god idols.

4 Your altars will be desolated and your incense altars smashed. I will throw down your slain in front of your idols.

Ezekiel 6:4 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 6:4

And your altars shall be desolate
Being pulled down; or because the priests and worshippers would now be slain, and there would be none to attend them: and your images shall be broken;
the "images of the sun" ^F2. The word for images has its derivation from heat; and were so called, either from the heat of the sun, to whose worship they were devoted, or from the heat of the love and affections of their worshippers: and I will cast down your slain [men] before your idols;
before your dung, or your "dunghill gods" ^F3; for the word used has the signification of dung, ( Ezekiel 4:12 ) . The Targum renders it,

``before the carcass of your idols;''

where they committed idolatry, there they should be slain; which points at the cause of their punishment.

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FOOTNOTES:

F2 (Mkynmx) "simulacra vestra solis", Pagninus; "solaria vestra", Vatablus; "subdiales statuae vestrae", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Polanus.
F3 (Mkylwlg ynpl) "coram stercoreis diis vestris", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Polanus; "coram stercoribus vestris", Cocceius.

Ezekiel 6:4 In-Context

2 “Son of man, set your face against the mountains of Israel; prophesy against them

3 and say: ‘You mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Sovereign LORD. This is what the Sovereign LORD says to the mountains and hills, to the ravines and valleys: I am about to bring a sword against you, and I will destroy your high places.

4 Your altars will be demolished and your incense altars will be smashed; and I will slay your people in front of your idols.

5 I will lay the dead bodies of the Israelites in front of their idols, and I will scatter your bones around your altars.

6 Wherever you live, the towns will be laid waste and the high places demolished, so that your altars will be laid waste and devastated, your idols smashed and ruined, your incense altars broken down, and what you have made wiped out.

Cross References

• 1. S 2 Chronicles 14:5
• 2. Ezekiel 9:6; Ezekiel 14:3; Ezekiel 20:16