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Ezekiel 6:4

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

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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.

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OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
וְנָשַׁ֙מּוּ֙ve.na.Sha.muand they will be made desolateH8074 →
מִזְבְּח֣וֹתֵיכֶ֔םmiz.be.Cho.tei.Khemaltars yourH4196 →
וְנִשְׁבְּר֖וּve.nish.be.Ruand they will be shatteredH7665 →
חַמָּֽנֵיכֶ֑םcha.ma.nei.Khemincense altars yourH2553 →
וְהִפַּלְתִּי֙ve.hi.pal.Tiand I will make fallH5307 →
חַלְלֵיכֶ֔םcha.lei.Khemslain [ones] yourH2491 →
לִפְנֵ֖יlif.Nei<to> beforeH6440 →
גִּלּוּלֵיכֶֽם׃gi.lu.lei.Khemidols yourH1544 →

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2 Chronicles 14:5He also removed the high places and incense altars from all the cities of Judah, and under him the kingdom was at peace.Leviticus 26:30I 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.Ezekiel 6:6Wherever you live, the cities will be laid waste and the high places will be demolished, so that your altars will be laid waste and desecrated, your idols smashed and obliterated, your incense altars cut down, and your works blotted out.Ezekiel 6:13Then 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 oak—the places where they offered fragrant incense to all their idols.Jeremiah 43:13He will demolish the sacred pillars of the temple of the sun in the land of Egypt, and he will burn down the temples of the gods of Egypt.’”Ezekiel 6:5–6I will lay the corpses of the Israelites before their idols and scatter your bones around your altars.2 Kings 23:14He smashed the sacred pillars to pieces, cut down the Asherah poles, and covered the sites with human bones.2 Kings 23:16–20And as Josiah turned, he saw the tombs there on the hillside, and he sent someone to take the bones out of the tombs, and he burned them on the altar to defile it, according to the word of the LORD proclaimed by the man of God who had foretold these things.Jeremiah 8:1–2“At that time,” declares the LORD, “the bones of the kings of Judah, the bones of the officials, the bones of the priests, the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the people of Jerusalem will be removed from their graves.2 Chronicles 34:4–5Then 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 cast images, crushed them to dust, and scattered them over the graves of those who had sacrificed to them.1 Kings 13:2And he cried out against the altar by the word of the LORD, “O altar, O altar, this is what the LORD says: ‘A son named Josiah will be born to the house of David, and upon you he will sacrifice the priests of the high places who burn incense upon you, and human bones will be burned upon you.’”

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