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New American Standard Bible

Ezekiel 6:4

"So your altars will become deserted and your incense altars will be smashed; and I will make your slain fall in front of your idols.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Sun;   Scofield Reference Index - Remnant;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Ezekiel;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Destroy, Destruction;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Idol;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Angel;   Ezekiel;   Gestures;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Sun;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Babylonish Captivity, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Images;   Sun-Worship;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Asylum;   Pillar;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Your altars will be desolated and your shrines smashed. I will throw down your slain in front of your idols.
Hebrew Names Version
Your altars shall become desolate, and your sun-images shall be broken; and I will cast down your slain men before your idols.
King James Version
And your altars shall be desolate, and your images shall be broken: and I will cast down your slain men before your idols.
English Standard Version
Your altars shall become desolate, and your incense altars shall be broken, and I will cast down your slain before your idols.
New Century Version
Your altars will be destroyed and your incense altars broken down. Your people will be killed in front of your idols.
Amplified Bible
and your altars will become deserted and your pillars for sun-worship will be smashed in pieces; and I will throw down your slain in front of your idols [that cannot bring them back to life].
World English Bible
Your altars shall become desolate, and your sun-images shall be broken; and I will cast down your slain men before your idols.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And your altars shalbe desolate, and your images of the sunne shalbe broken: and I will cast downe your slaine men before your idoles.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"So your altars will become desolate and your incense altars will be smashed; and I will make your slain fall in front of your idols.
Legacy Standard Bible
So your altars will become desolate, and your incense altars will be broken; and I will make your slain fall in front of your idols.
Berean Standard Bible
Your altars will be demolished and your incense altars will be smashed; and I will cast down your slain before your idols.
Contemporary English Version
Every altar will be smashed, and in front of the idols I will put to death the people who worship them.
Complete Jewish Bible
Your altars will be wrecked and your pillars for sun-worship broken, and I will throw down your slain ones in front of your idols.
Darby Translation
And your altars shall be desolate, and your sun-images shall be broken; and I will cast down your slain [men] before your idols;
Easy-to-Read Version
Your altars will be broken into pieces. Your incense altars will be smashed, and I will throw down your dead bodies in front of your filthy idols.
George Lamsa Translation
Your altars shall be desolate, and your images shall be broken; and I will cast down your slain men before your idols.
Good News Translation
The altars will be torn down and the incense altars broken. All the people there will be killed in front of their idols.
Lexham English Bible
and your altars will be desolate, and your incense altars will be broken, and I will throw down your slain ones before your idols,
Literal Translation
And your altars shall be ruined, and your pillars shall be broken. And I will cast down your slain before your idols.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
I wil cast downe youre aulters, and breake downe youre temples. Youre slayne men will I laye before youre goddes,
American Standard Version
And your altars shall become desolate, and your sun-images shall be broken; and I will cast down your slain men before your idols.
Bible in Basic English
And your altars will be made waste, and your sun-images will be broken: and I will have your dead men placed before your images.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And your altars shall become desolate, and your sun-images shall be broken; and I will cast down your slain men before your idols.
King James Version (1611)
And your altars shalbe desolate, and your images shall be broken: and I will cast downe your slaine men before your idoles.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Your aulters shalbe destroyed, & your images of the sunne broken downe, your slayne men wyll I cast downe before your idols.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And your altars shall be broken to pieces, and your consecrated plats; and I will cast down your slain men before your idols.
English Revised Version
your altars shall become desolate, and your sun-images shall be broken: and I will cast down your slain men before your idols.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And Y schal distrie youre auteris, and youre symylacris schulen be brokun; and Y schal caste doun youre slayn men bifore youre idols.
Update Bible Version
And your altars shall become desolate, and your sun-images shall be broken; and I will cast down your slain men before your idols.
Webster's Bible Translation
And your altars shall be desolate, and your images shall be broken: and I will cast down your slain [men] before your idols.
New English Translation
Your altars will be ruined and your incense altars will be broken. I will throw down your slain in front of your idols.
New King James Version
Then your altars shall be desolate, your incense altars shall be broken, and I will cast down your slain men before your idols.
New Living Translation
All your altars will be demolished, and your places of worship will be destroyed. I will kill your people in front of your idols.
New Life Bible
So your altars will be laid waste. Your altars for special perfume will be broken. And I will kill your people in front of your false gods.
New Revised Standard
Your altars shall become desolate, and your incense stands shall be broken; and I will throw down your slain in front of your idols.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And your altars shall be laid waste, And your sun-pillars shall be broken in pieces, - And I will cause your slain to fall before your manufactured gods;
Douay-Rheims Bible
And I will throw down your altars, and your idols shall be broken in pieces: and I will cast down your slain before your idols.
Revised Standard Version
Your altars shall become desolate, and your incense altars shall be broken; and I will cast down your slain before your idols.
Young's Literal Translation
And desolated have been your altars, And broken your images, And I have caused your wounded to fall before your idols,

Contextual Overview

1 Now the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 2 "Son of man, set your face toward the mountains of Israel, and prophesy against them 3 and say, 'Mountains of Israel, listen to the word of the Lord GOD! This is what the Lord GOD says to the mountains, the hills, the ravines, and the valleys: "Behold, I Myself am going to bring a sword against you, and I will destroy your high places. 4 "So your altars will become deserted and your incense altars will be smashed; and I will make your slain fall in front of your idols.5 "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. 6 "Everywhere you live, cities will be in ruins and the high places will be deserted, so that your altars will be in ruins and deserted, your idols will be broken and brought to an end, your incense altars will be cut down, and your works wiped out. 7 "The slain will fall among you, and you will know that I am the LORD.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

images: or, sun-images, and so, Ezekiel 6:6, 2 Chronicles 14:5, 2 Chronicles 34:4, Jeremiah 43:13, *marg.

and I: Ezekiel 6:5, Ezekiel 6:13, Leviticus 26:30, 1 Kings 13:2, 2 Kings 23:14, 2 Kings 23:16-20, 2 Chronicles 34:5, Jeremiah 8:1, Jeremiah 8:2

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 5:4 - the head

Cross-References

Genesis 6:15
"This is how you shall make it: the length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, its width fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits.
Genesis 6:20
"Of the birds according to their kind, and of the animals according to their kind, of every crawling thing of the ground according to its kind, two of every kind will come to you to keep them alive.
Genesis 6:21
"As for you, take for yourself some of every food that is edible, and gather it to yourself; and it shall be food for you and them."
Genesis 6:22
So Noah did these things; according to everything that God had commanded him, so he did.
Genesis 11:4
And they said, "Come, let's build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top will reach into heaven, and let's make a name for ourselves; otherwise we will be scattered abroad over the face of all the earth."
Numbers 13:33
"We also saw the Nephilim there (the sons of Anak are part of the Nephilim); and we were like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their sight."
Numbers 16:2
and they stood before Moses, together with some of the sons of Israel, 250 leaders of the congregation chosen in the assembly, men of renown.
Deuteronomy 3:11
(For only Og king of Bashan was left of the remnant of the Rephaim. Behold, his bed was a bed of iron; it is in Rabbah of the sons of Ammon. Its length was nine cubits, and its width four cubits by the usual cubit.)
1 Samuel 17:4
Then a champion came forward from the army encampment of the Philistines, named Goliath, from Gath. His height was six cubits and a span.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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. 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" c; 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.

b חמניכם "simulacra vestra solis", Pagninus; "solaria vestra", Vatablus; "subdiales statuae vestrae", Junius Tremellius, Piscator, Polanus. c לפני גלוליכם "coram stercoreis diis vestris", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Polanus "coram stercoribus vestris", Cocceius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Images - See the margin and margin reference, and the Ezekiel 8:16 note.

Idols - The Phoenicians were in the habit of setting up “heaps” or “pillars” of stone in honor of their gods, which renders the use of the word more appropriate.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezekiel 6:4. Your images shall be broken — Literally, your sun images; representations of the sun, which they worshipped. See the margin.


 
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