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Ezekiel 6:1. The mountains of Israel are mentioned first, because they
were the places where the people practiced idolatry; they were the
high places so often mentioned in the historical books. (Read...
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EZEKIEL 6. THE DOOM OF THE SINFUL MOUNTAINS.
Ezekiel 6:1. Not only, however, was Jerusalem steeped in sin, but the
whole land; therefore the whole land is here addressed and denounced,
or rather the...
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WASTE. Reference to Pentateuch (Leviticus 26:31). App-92....
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_your works_ the works of your hands, the idols. All the cumulative
phrases in the verse are wanting in LXX. viz. "and made desolate,"
"and cease," "and your works may be abolished." The term "abolish...
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Second Section. Ch. Ezekiel 3:22 to Ezekiel 7:27
The second section of the Book contains these parts:
(1) Ch. Ezekiel 3:22-27. A preface in which the prophet is commanded
to confine himself to his o...
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II. DISOBEDIENCE AND DESOLATION 6:1-14
In his second discourse Ezekiel zeroes in on the places of idolatrous
worship which were located in the mountains and valleys of Judah.
These pagan sanctuaries,...
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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 you...
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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 either...
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A PROPHECY AGAINST THE MOUNTAIN LAND OF ISRAEL
The coming judgment is here announced to the land of Israel, which is
identified with the people. Ezekiel 6:8, following up the hint in
Ezekiel 5:3, spe...
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EZEKIEL: ‘THEY SHALL KNOW THAT I AM GOD’
THE *SIN OF JUDAH AND THE JUDGEMENT OF GOD
EZEKIEL CHAPTER S 1 TO 24
_IAN MACKERVOY_
CHAPTER 6
GOD WILL BREAK THE *ALTARS AND REMOVE THE FALSE GODS – EZE...
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MAY BE ABOLISHED. — The word _abolished_ is a strong one, meaning
utterly obliterated, wiped out. This was what Israel should have done
to the nations who inhabited Canaan before them; they and their...
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בְּ כֹל֙ מֹושְׁבֹ֣ותֵיכֶ֔ם הֶ עָרִ֣ים
תֶּחֱרַ֔בְנָה...
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THE END FORETOLD
Ezekiel 4:1 - Ezekiel 7:1
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
about four and a...
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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...
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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 appre...
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In other words, the Prophet signifies that God would take vengeance on
the superstitions of the ten tribes in all places; whence it is
_clear, _that no corner was free from corruption. For, while he n...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 5 AND 6.
In the revelation given to Ezekiel Jerusalem is taken, and its
population almost entirely destroyed. The dispersed remnant are
pursued by the sword,...
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IN ALL YOUR DWELLING PLACES YOUR CITIES SHALL BE LAID WASTE,.... Which
denotes that the desolation should be general, wherever they had
cities and places to dwell in; the idolatry being universal, as...
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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...
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_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 mountains...
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In all your dwelling-places, that is, throughout the country occupied
by them, THE CITIES SHALL BE LAID WASTE, AND THE HIGH PLACES SHALL BE
DESOLATE, heaps of ruins, THAT YOUR ALTARS MAY BE LAID WASTE...
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THE DESOLATION OF THE LAND AND THE SLAUGHTER OF THE IDOLATERS...
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Mountains and hills with their altars were doomed, now the cities that
were of less note than Jerusalem seem particularly to be threatened,
because they were idolatrous; according to the number of cit...
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Ezekiel 6:6 places H4186 cities H5892 waste H2717 (H8799) places H1116
desolate H3456 (H8799) altars H4196 waste...
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CONTENTS: Message against the mountains of Israel. Remnant to be
spared. Desolations upon the land.
CHARACTERS: God, Ezekiel.
CONCLUSION: If men do not, as they ought, destroy idolatry, God will
fir...
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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
heathen a...
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_That your altars may be laid waste._
FALSE WORSHIP
1. Where idols and false worship are got into a church or state, they
are not easily got out again. Their cities must be destroyed, that
their alt...
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EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 6:1 These two extended oracles are both
addressed to “geography”: the “mountains” (Ezekiel 6:2) and
“land” ...
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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). After asserting, in Ezekiel 6:1,...
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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, in...
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CHAPTER 5-6.
THE VISION OF THE SHORN HAIR AND ITS FORESHADOWING DESOLATIONS.
Ezekiel 5:1. _And thou, son of man, take thee a sharp sword; a
barber's razor shalt thou take to thee, and cause it to pa...
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Shall we turn in our Bibles to Ezekiel the sixth chapter.
Ezekiel here addresses himself to the mountains of Israel. The people
of Israel had built places of worship on the tops of the mountains,
but...
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Ezekiel 6:5...
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Your works — All your costly work for your idols....