Ezekiel 6:4 “Your altars will be demolished and your incense altars will be smashed…”

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.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

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.

World English Bible

Your altars will become desolate, and your incense altars will be broken. I will cast down your slain men before your idols.

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.

Geneva Bible 1599

And your altars shalbe desolate, and your images of the sunne shalbe broken: and I will cast downe your slaine men before your idoles.

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;

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,

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.

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Cross references

“images”

2 Chronicles 14:5 Jeremiah 43:13 Ezekiel 6:6 2 Chronicles 34:4

2 Chronicles 14:5 · BSB

He also removed the high places and incense altars from all the cities of Judah, and under him the kingdom was at peace.

Jeremiah 43:13 · BSB

He 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 6:6 · BSB

Wherever 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 w…

2 Chronicles 34:4 · BSB

Then 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…

“and I”

Leviticus 26:30 Ezekiel 6:13 1 Kings 13:2 2 Kings 23:14 2 Kings 23:16–20 Ezekiel 6:5

Leviticus 26:30 · BSB

I 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 6:13 · BSB

Then 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 fragr…

1 Kings 13:2 · BSB

And 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 pl…

2 Kings 23:14 · BSB

He smashed the sacred pillars to pieces, cut down the Asherah poles, and covered the sites with human bones.

2 Kings 23:16–20 · BSB

And 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…

Ezekiel 6:5 · BSB

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

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

3You are to say: ‘O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD! This is what the Lord GOD says to the mountains and hills, to the ravines and valleys: I am about to bring a sword against you, and I will destroy your high places.

5I will lay the corpses of the Israelites before their idols and scatter your bones around your altars.

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