And your altars shall be desolate, and your images shall be broken: and I will cast down your slain [men] before your idols.

Ver. 4. Your images shall be broken down.] Heb., Your sun images, whence also Jupiter Hammon had his name, which Macrobius a saith was the same with the sun. See 2 Chronicles 23:5 .

And I will cast down your slain men.] Cruentatos vulneratos, vel interfectos vestros; such as when wounded, fly to their idols for safety.

Before your idols.] Heb., Your dii stercorei, dunghill deities, more loathsome than any excrements.

a Lib. i. Sat., cap. 23.

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