And your altars, namely, those devoted to the service of idols, shall be desolate, and your images shall be broken, the sun-pillars erected in honor of the Phoenician god Baal; and I will cast down your slain men before your idols. In the original the word here used has a contemptuous flavor, so that it means either stone monuments, loose stones, dead masses of stone, or dung-idols. In the presence of the very logs or pillars in which they trusted these men would be slaughtered, for their idols were powerless to help them.

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