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Ezekiel 6:4

in Ezekiel 6

Your altars will be demolished and your incense altars will be smashed; and I will cast down your slain before your idols.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

And your altars shall become desolate, and your sun-images shall be broken; and I will cast down your slain men before your idols.

KJV

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

This verse in Ezekiel 6

Commentary

3 notes on this verse
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" (b).

This site's exposition

And your altars shall be desolate

on Ezekiel 6:4-7

The judgment reaches the whole apparatus of the high places, altars made desolate, images broken, and the slain of Israel's own people cast down before the very idols they had trusted, their bones scattered around the altars they had built. Keil reads the juxtaposition, corpses among broken images, as the sign's deliberate point, the idols shown powerless to protect even the ground where they stood. The unit ends on the book's recognition formula in its first landing of the chapter, and ye shall know that I am the Lord, the stated purpose behind the destruction rather than judgment left to speak for itself. Clarke notes that cities and high places are named together, so the desolation is total across the land rather than confined to the shrines alone.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

on Ezekiel 6:4-6

(3.) It is just with God to make that a desolation which we make an idol of; for he is a jealous God and will not bear a rival. (4.) If men do not, as they ought, destroy idolatry, God will, first or last, find out a way to do it.

The words behind it

8 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וְנָשַׁ֙מּוּ֙and they will be made desolate

    venashamuH807486 times

  • מִזְבְּח֣וֹתֵיכֶ֔םaltars your

    mizbechoteikhemH4196401 times

  • וְנִשְׁבְּר֖וּand they will be shattered

    venishberuH7665147 times

  • חַמָּֽנֵיכֶ֑םincense altars your

    chamaneikhemH2553

  • וְהִפַּלְתִּי֙and I will make fall

    vehipaltiH5307435 times

  • חַלְלֵיכֶ֔םslain [ones] your

    chaleikhemH249194 times

  • לִפְנֵ֖י<to> before

    lifneiH64402123 times

  • גִּלּוּלֵיכֶֽם׃idols your

    giluleikhemH154448 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Ezekiel 6:13

    Then you will know that I am the LORD, when their slain lie among their idols around their altars, on every high hill, on all the mountaintops, and under every green tree and leafy…

    it leads to

    • Ezekiel 20:28

      When I brought them into the land that I swore to give them and they saw any high hill or leafy tree, there they offered their sacrifices, presented offerings that provoked Me, sent up…

    • Hosea 4:13

      They sacrifice on the mountaintops and burn offerings on the hills, under oak, poplar, and terebinth, because their shade is pleasant. And so your daughters turn to prostitution and your daughters-in-law to adultery.

    • 1 Kings 14:23

      They also built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.

    • Jeremiah 2:20

      “For long ago you broke your yoke and tore off your chains, saying, ‘I will not serve!’ Indeed, on every high hill and under every green tree you lay down as a prostitute.

  • Through

    2 Chronicles 14:5

    He also removed the high places and incense altars from all the cities of Judah, and under him the kingdom was at peace.

    it leads to

    • 2 Chronicles 34:4

      Then in his presence the altars of the Baals were torn down, and he cut to pieces the incense altars that were above them. He shattered the Asherah poles, the carved idols, and the…

    • 2 Chronicles 34:7

      He tore down the altars and Asherah poles, crushed the idols to powder, and cut to pieces all the incense altars throughout the land of Israel. Then he returned to Jerusalem.

  • Through

    Leviticus 26:30

    I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars, and heap your lifeless bodies on the lifeless remains of your idols; and My soul will despise you.

    it leads to

    • 2 Kings 23:20

      On the altars he slaughtered all the priests of the high places, and he burned human bones on them. Then he returned to Jerusalem.

    • Ezekiel 6:13

      Then you will know that I am the LORD, when their slain lie among their idols around their altars, on every high hill, on all the mountaintops, and under every green tree and leafy…

About Ezekiel

The Prophet Ezekiel — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
The Prophet Ezekiel — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Carl Friedrich Keil, Biblical Commentary on the Prophecies of Ezekiel; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.