Ezekiel 6:4

New Century Version

Your altars will be destroyed and your incense altars broken down. Your people will be killed in front of your idols.

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 American Standard Bible
"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.

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 Again the Lord spoke his word to me, saying: ² "Human, look toward the mountains of Israel, and prophesy against them. ³ Say, ‘Mountains of Israel, listen to the word of the Lord God . The Lord God says this to the mountains, the hills, the ravines, and the valleys: I will bring a sword against you, and I will destroy your places of idol worship. ⁴ Your altars will be destroyed and your incense altars broken down. Your people will be killed 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 In all the places you live, cities will become empty. The places of idol worship will be ruined; your altars will become lonely ruins. Your idols will be broken and brought to an end. Your incense altars will be cut down, and the things you made will be wiped out. ⁷ Your people will be killed and fall among you. Then 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 big I want you to build the boat: four hundred fifty feet long, seventy-five feet wide, and forty-five feet high.

Genesis 6:20
Two of every kind of bird, animal, and crawling thing will come to you to be kept alive.

Genesis 6:21
Also gather some of every kind of food and store it on the boat as food for you and the animals."

Genesis 6:22
Noah did everything that God commanded him.

Genesis 11:4
Then they said to each other, "Let's build a city and a tower for ourselves, whose top will reach high into the sky. We will become famous. Then we will not be scattered over all the earth."

Numbers 13:33
We saw the Nephilim people there. (The Anakites come from the Nephilim people.) We felt like grasshoppers, and we looked like grasshoppers to them."

Numbers 16:2
These men gathered two hundred fifty other Israelite men, well-known leaders chosen by the community, and challenged Moses.

Deuteronomy 3:11
(Only Og king of Bashan was left of the few Rephaites. His bed was made of iron, and it was more than thirteen feet long and six feet wide! It is still in the Ammonite city of Rabbah.)

1 Samuel 17:4
The Philistines had a champion fighter from Gath named Goliath. He was about nine feet, four inches tall. He came out of the Philistine camp

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.