When the slain shall fall thus in your sight, you shall know two things you would not regard before.
1. That idols are vanity and snares.
2. That I am the Lord, who do avenge the quarrel of my covenant. Or, may it not be turned, And the profane shall fall, i.e. the idols, and altars; and other implements of idol-worship, made holy by unholy men, shall be profaned and east down, defiled and trod under foot in the sight of the Jews, as God threatens; then they shall know God is the only Lord and God. I conjecture at this by Ezekiel's being among the Chaldeans some years, who had gotten somewhat of their tongue; and the word here used, which is rendered slain, and I render profane, doth in the Chaldee signify profane, and is so rendered, Ezekiel 21:25. If so rendered here, it will better suit with the foregoing verse, and more fitly sum up that discourse and close it. See Ezekiel 6:10,12.