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Selected Verse: Ezekiel 6:4 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Eze 6:4 |
King James |
And your altars shall be desolate, and your images shall be broken: and I will cast down your slain men before your idols. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
images--called so from a Hebrew root, "to wax hot," implying the mad ardor of Israel after idolatry [CALVIN]. Others translate it, "sun images"; and so in Eze 6:6 (see Kg2 23:11; Ch2 34:4; Isa 17:8, Margin).
cast your slain men before your idols--The foolish objects of their trust in the day of evil should witness their ruin. |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
Images - See the margin and margin reference, and the Eze 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. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Cast down - Before the altars of your idols, which you fly to for refuge. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| Your images shall be broken - Literally, your sun images; representations of the sun, which they worshipped. See the margin. |
8 And he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands, neither shall respect that which his fingers have made, either the groves, or the images.
4 And they brake down the altars of Baalim in his presence; and the images, that were on high above them, he cut down; and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images, he brake in pieces, and made dust of them, and strowed it upon the graves of them that had sacrificed unto them.
11 And he took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entering in of the house of the LORD, by the chamber of Nathanmelech the chamberlain, which was in the suburbs, and burned the chariots of the sun with fire.
6 In all your dwellingplaces the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate; that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, and your idols may be broken and cease, and your images may be cut down, and your works may be abolished.
16 And he brought me into the inner court of the LORD'S house, and, behold, at the door of the temple of the LORD, between the porch and the altar, were about five and twenty men, with their backs toward the temple of the LORD, and their faces toward the east; and they worshipped the sun toward the east.