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 particular images made to the sun, as the Hebrew word including heat may signify. Or the open places on the tops of your houses, where you worshipped the sun, 2 Kings 23:5; and Isaiah 27:9, mentions this piece of idolatry. Broken; either torn down from their places to be carried captives, which was a part of heathen conquerors insolence, or torn in pieces in contempt, and to be destroyed. I will cast down; my hand shall guide the pursuing enemy, who shall slay your men before the altars of those idols they worshipped formerly, and to whom, as senseless as the idols, they flee for refuge, as perhaps Sennacherib did, Isaiah 37:38.

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