Ezekiel 6:4 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And your altars shall be desolate, and your imagesa shall be broken: and I will cast down your slain men before your idols. ”

Ezekiel 6:4 - Albert 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...
Ezekiel 6:4 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

And your altars shall be desolate, and your (b) images shall be broken: and I will cast down your slain [men] before your idols. (b) Read ( 2 Kings 23:14 ).
Ezekiel 6:4 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 6. The Doom of the Sinful Mountains. Ezekiel 6:1-7 . Not only, however, was Jerusalem steeped in sin, but the whole land; therefore the whole land is here addressed and denounced, or rat...
Ezekiel 6:4 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

images . sun. images. Ref, to Pentateuch ( Leviticus 26:30 ). App-92. Compare 2 Chronicles 14:5 . 2Ch 34:4, 2 Chronicles 34:7 ; Isaiah 17:8 ; Isaiah 27:9 . idols . manufactured gods.
Ezekiel 6:4 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Hence it appears how greatly obedience pleases God, and how true it is that it is better than sacrifices. ( 1 Samuel 15:22 ; Genesis 12 .) For it is certain that the Israelites extolled the...
Ezekiel 6:4 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And your altars shall be desolate, and your images shall be broken: and I will cast down your slain men before your idols. Your images shall be broken - Literally, your sun images; representations...
Ezekiel 6:4 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And your altars shall be desolate, and your images shall be broken: and I will cast down your slain men before your idols. Images - called so from a Hebrew root [chaamam], to wax hot, implyin...
Ezekiel 6:4 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Guilt (or Trespass) Offering. Two cases are mentioned in which it is proper to bring a guilt offering. The first ( Leviticus 5:15 ) is that of a person who occasions loss to the sanctuary by eit...
Ezekiel 6:4 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Your images. — The original word indicates, as is shown in the margin, that these were images used in connection with the worship of the sun. The whole verse is taken from Leviticus 26:30 . The sa...
Ezekiel 6:4 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

THE END FORETOLD Ezekiel 4:1-17 - Ezekiel 7:1-27 WITH the fourth chapter we enter on the exposition of the first great division of Ezekiel's prophecies. The chaps, 4-24, cover a period of abo...
Ezekiel 6:4 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

These signs were followed by denunciations growing naturally out of what they had taught. In general terms, the prophet first foretold the coming judgment of the sword against the whole land, and the...
Ezekiel 6:4 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

By the mountains of Israel, is meant the higher order of the people of Israel; such as exalted themselves above their fellows, and perhaps prided themselves in being exempt from popular fear and appr...
Ezekiel 6:4 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire 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...
Ezekiel 6:4 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And your altars shall be desolate, and your images shall be broken: and I will cast down your slain [men] before your idols. Ver. 4. Your images shall be broken down. ] Heb., Your sun images, when...
Ezekiel 6:4 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Set thy face toward the mountains of Israel Turn thy face to that part where Judea is situated. Judea was a hilly country; therefore that whole land is expressed here and elsewhere by the mountain...
Ezekiel 6:4 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Destruction of Idolatry. B. C. 594. 1 And the word of the L ORD came unto me, sayin...
Ezekiel 6:4 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Your altars; God's altar was only at Jerusalem, these were their altars. Desolate; no priest to attend, no sacrifice offered, nor a votary come to them. Images; statues, and perhaps the particu...
Ezekiel 6:4 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘And the word of Yahweh came to me saying, “Son of man, set your face towards the mountains of Israel, and prophesy to them, and say, ‘You mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord Yahweh, Thus...
Ezekiel 6:4 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

4. FURTHER INSTRUCTIONS AS TO THE CONSEQUENCES OF ISRAEL’S CONDUCT (Chap. 6) EXEGETICAL NOTES.— The judgment on places of idolatry and the worshippers ( Ezekiel 6:1-7 ). After asserting, in Ezekie...
Ezekiel 6:4 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ezekiel 6:3 . I will destroy your high places, all the necessaries of idolatry. במות bomoth, Βουνοι, thence Βωμοι. Your high altars. In Montfaucon's Antiquities we have various views of heathe...
Ezekiel 6:4 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Ezekiel 6:2 , Ezekiel 6:3 Set thy face toward the mountains, etc. The formula is eminently characteristic of Ezekiel. We have had it with a different verb in the Hebrew, i...
Ezekiel 6:4 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Desolation of the Land and the Slaughter of the Idolaters
Ezekiel 6:4 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ezekiel 36:1-4 ; Ezekiel 36:8 ; Isaiah 27:9 ; Jeremiah 2:20 ; Jeremiah 22:29 ; Jeremiah 3:23 ; Jeremiah 3:6 ; Leviticus 26:30 ; Micah 6:2
Ezekiel 6:4 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Cast down — Before the altars of your idols, which you fly to for refuge.

Ezekiel 6:4 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Ezekiel 6:4 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Ezekiel 6:4 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 6:4 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Ezekiel 6:4 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 6:4 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Ezekiel 6:4 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Ezekiel 6:4 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 6:4 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Ezekiel 6:4 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Ezekiel 6:4 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Ezekiel 6:4 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Ezekiel 6:4 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Ezekiel 6:4 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Ezekiel 6:4 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ezekiel 6:4 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Ezekiel 6:4 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Ezekiel 6:4 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 6:4 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Ezekiel 6:4 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ezekiel 6:4 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Ezekiel 6:4 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Ezekiel 6:4 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ezekiel 6:4 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes