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Douay-Rheims Bible
Ezekiel 6:4
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.
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Christian Standard Bible®
Your altars will be desolated and your shrines smashed. I will throw down your slain in front of your idols.
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.
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.
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.
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.
"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.
New Century Version
Your altars will be destroyed and your incense altars broken down. Your people will be killed in front of your idols.
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].
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.
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.
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.
"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.
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.
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.
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.
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;
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.
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.
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.
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,
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.
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,
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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;
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;
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.
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,
And desolated have been your altars, And broken your images, And I have caused your wounded to fall before your idols,
Contextual Overview
1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: 2 Son of man set thy face towards the mountains of Israel, and prophesy against them. 3 And say: Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord God: Thus saith the Lord God to the mountains, and to the hills, and to the rocks, and the valleys: Behold, I will bring upon you the sword, and I will destroy your high places. 4 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. 5 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, 6 In all your dwelling places. The cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be thrown down, and destroyed, and your altars shall be abolished, and shall be broken in pieces: and your idols shall be no more, and your temples shall be destroyed, and your works shall be defaced. 7 And the slain shall fall in the midst of you: and you shall 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
And thus shalt thou make it. The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits: the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.
And thus shalt thou make it. The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits: the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.
Genesis 6:20
Of fowls according to their kind, and of beasts in their kind, and of every thing that creepeth on the earth according to its kind: two of every sort shall go in with thee, that they may live.
Of fowls according to their kind, and of beasts in their kind, and of every thing that creepeth on the earth according to its kind: two of every sort shall go in with thee, that they may live.
Genesis 6:21
Thou shalt take unto thee of all food that may be eaten, and thou shalt lay it up with thee: and it shall be food for thee and them.
Thou shalt take unto thee of all food that may be eaten, and thou shalt lay it up with thee: and it shall be food for thee and them.
Genesis 6:22
And Noe did all things which God commanded him.
And Noe did all things which God commanded him.
Genesis 11:4
And they said: Come, let us make a city and a tower, the top whereof may reach to heaven; and let us make our name famous before we be scattered abroad into all lands.
And they said: Come, let us make a city and a tower, the top whereof may reach to heaven; and let us make our name famous before we be scattered abroad into all lands.
Numbers 13:33
(13-34) There we saw certain monsters of the sons of Enac, of the giant kind: in comparison of whom, we seemed like locusts.
(13-34) There we saw certain monsters of the sons of Enac, of the giant kind: in comparison of whom, we seemed like locusts.
Numbers 16:2
Rose up against Moses, and with them two hundred and fifty others of the children of Israel, leading men of the synagogue, and who in the time of assembly were called by name.
Rose up against Moses, and with them two hundred and fifty others of the children of Israel, leading men of the synagogue, and who in the time of assembly were called by name.
Deuteronomy 3:11
For only Og king of Basan remained of the race of the giants. His bed of iron is shewn, which is in Rabbath of the children of Ammon, being nine cubits long, and four broad after the measure of the cubit of a man’s hand.
For only Og king of Basan remained of the race of the giants. His bed of iron is shewn, which is in Rabbath of the children of Ammon, being nine cubits long, and four broad after the measure of the cubit of a man’s hand.
1 Samuel 17:4
And there went out a man baseborn from the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Geth, whose height was six cubits and a span:
And there went out a man baseborn from the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Geth, whose 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.
