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Christian Standard Bible ®

Ezekiel 6:5

I will lay the corpses of the Israelites in front of their idols and scatter your bones around your altars.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Thompson Chain Reference - Bones Scattered;   God's;   Judgments, God's;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Ezekiel;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Angel;   Ezekiel;   Gestures;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Babylonish Captivity, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Carcass;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
I will lay the dead bodies of the children of Yisra'el before their idols; and I will scatter your bones round about your altars.
King James Version
And I will lay the dead carcases of the children of Israel before their idols; and I will scatter your bones round about your altars.
English Standard Version
And I will lay the dead bodies of the people of Israel before their idols, and I will scatter your bones around your altars.
New American Standard Bible
"I will also lay the dead bodies of the sons of Israel in front of their idols; and I will scatter your bones around your altars.
New Century Version
I will lay the dead bodies of the Israelites in front of their idols, and I will scatter your bones around your altars.
Amplified Bible
"I will also lay the dead bodies of the children of Israel in front of their [Canaanite] idols; and I will scatter your bones all around your altars.
World English Bible
I will lay the dead bodies of the children of Israel before their idols; and I will scatter your bones round about your altars.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And I will lay the dead carkeises of the children of Israel before their idoles, and I will scatter your bones round about your altars.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"I will also lay the dead bodies of the sons of Israel in front of their idols; and I will scatter your bones around your altars.
Legacy Standard Bible
I will also put the dead bodies of the sons of Israel in front of their idols; and I will scatter your bones all around your altars.
Berean Standard Bible
I will lay the corpses of the Israelites before their idols and scatter your bones around your altars.
Contemporary English Version
Dead bodies and bones will be lying around the idols and the altars.
Complete Jewish Bible
I will lay the corpses of the people of Isra'el in front of their idols and scatter your bones all around your altars.
Darby Translation
and I will lay the dead bodies of the children of Israel before their idols; and I will scatter your bones round about your altars.
Easy-to-Read Version
I will put the dead bodies of the people of Israel in front of their filthy idols. I will scatter your bones around your altars.
George Lamsa Translation
And I will lay the dead bodies of the house of Israel before their idols; and I will scatter your bones round about your altars.
Good News Translation
I will scatter the corpses of the people of Israel; I will scatter their bones all around the altars.
Lexham English Bible
and I will place the corpses of the children of Israel before their idols, and I will scatter your bones around your altars.
Literal Translation
And I will put the dead bodies of the sons of Israel before their idols, and I will scatter your bones around your altars.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
and the deed carcases off the children off Israel will I cast before their ymages, youre bones wil I strowe rounde aboute youre aulters,
American Standard Version
And I will lay the dead bodies of the children of Israel before their idols; and I will scatter your bones round about your altars.
Bible in Basic English
And I will put the dead bodies of the children of Israel in front of their images, sending your bones in all directions about your altars.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And I will lay the carcasses of the children of Israel before their idols; and I will scatter your bones round about your altars.
King James Version (1611)
And I will lay the dead carkeises of the children of Israel before their idoles, and I will scatter your bones round about your altars.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the dead carkases of the children of Israel wyll I cast before their idols, your bones will I scatter rounde about your aulters.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And I will scatter your bones round about your altars,
English Revised Version
And I will lay the carcases of the children of Israel before their idols; and I will scatter your bones round about your altars.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
dnA Y schal yyue the deed bodies of the sones of Israel bifor the face of youre symylacris, and Y schal scatere youre boonys
Update Bible Version
And I will lay the dead bodies of the sons of Israel before their idols; and I will scatter your bones round about your altars.
Webster's Bible Translation
And I will lay the dead carcasses of the children of Israel before their idols; and I will scatter your bones about your altars.
New English Translation
I will place the corpses of the people of Israel in front of their idols, and I will scatter your bones around your altars.
New King James Version
And I will lay the corpses of the children of Israel before their idols, and I will scatter your bones all around your altars.
New Living Translation
I will lay your corpses in front of your idols and scatter your bones around your altars.
New Life Bible
I will lay the dead bodies of the sons of Israel in front of their false gods, and spread your bones around your altars.
New Revised Standard
I will lay the corpses of the people of Israel in front of their idols; and I will scatter your bones around your altars.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And I will lay the carcases of the sons of Israel before their manufactured gods, - And will scatter your bones round about your altars.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And I will lay the dead carcasses of the children of Israel before your idols: and I will scatter your bones round about your altars,
Revised Standard Version
And I will lay the dead bodies of the people of Israel before their idols; and I will scatter your bones round about your altars.
Young's Literal Translation
And put the carcases of the sons of Israel before their idols, And scattered your bones round about your altars.

Contextual Overview

1The word of the Lord came to me: 2“Son of man, face the mountains of Israel and prophesy against them. 3You are to say: Mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord God! This is what the Lord God says to the mountains and the hills, to the ravines and the valleys: I am about to bring a sword against you, and I will destroy your high places. 4Your altars will be desolated and your shrines smashed. I will throw down your slain in front of your idols. 5I will lay the corpses of the Israelites in front of their idols and scatter your bones around your altars. 6Wherever you live the cities will be in ruins and the high places will be desolate, so that your altars will lie in ruins and be desecrated, your idols smashed and obliterated, your shrines cut down, and what you have made wiped out. 7The slain will fall among you, and you will know that I am the Lord.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

lay: Heb. give, Ezekiel 6:5

Reciprocal: Psalms 53:5 - scattered Jeremiah 7:32 - the days Jeremiah 8:1 - General Ezekiel 6:4 - and I

Cross-References

Genesis 6:1
When mankind began to multiply on the earth and daughters were born to them,
Genesis 6:3
And the Lord said, “My Spirit will not remain with mankind forever, because they are corrupt. Their days will be 120 years.”
Genesis 6:4
The Nephilim were on the earth both in those days and afterward, when the sons of God came to the daughters of mankind, who bore children to them. They were the powerful men of old, the famous men.
Genesis 6:9
These are the family records of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among his contemporaries; Noah walked with God.
Genesis 6:19
You are also to bring into the ark two of all the living creatures, male and female, to keep them alive with you.
Genesis 6:20
Two of everything—from the birds according to their kinds, from the livestock according to their kinds, and from the animals that crawl on the ground according to their kinds—will come to you so that you can keep them alive.
Genesis 6:21
Take with you every kind of food that is eaten; gather it as food for you and for them.”
Genesis 8:21
When the Lord smelled the pleasing aroma, he said to himself, “I will never again curse the ground because of human beings, even though the inclination of the human heart is evil from youth onward. And I will never again strike down every living thing as I have done.
Genesis 13:13
(Now the men of Sodom were evil, sinning immensely against the Lord.)
Deuteronomy 29:19
When someone hears the words of this oath, he may consider himself exempt, thinking, ‘I will have peace even though I follow my own stubborn heart.’ This will lead to the destruction of the well-watered land as well as the dry land.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And I will lay the dead carcasses of the children of Israel before their idols,.... Which is repeated for the confirmation of it:

and I will scatter your bones round about your altars: which were reckoned a pollution of them; see 2 Kings 23:14.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezekiel 6:5. Will scatter your bones round about your altars. — This was literally fulfilled by the Chaldeans. According to Baruch, Baruch 2:24, 25, they opened the sepulchres of the principal people, and threw the bones about on every side.


 
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