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Verse Ezekiel 6:4. _YOUR IMAGES SHALL BE BROKEN_] Literally, your
_sun_ _images_; representations of the sun, which they worshipped. See
the margin....
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IMAGES - See the margin and margin reference, and the Ezekiel 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 th...
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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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IMAGES. sun. images. Ref, to Pentateuch (Leviticus 26:30). App-92.
Compare 2 Chronicles 14:5. 2Ch 34:4, 2 Chronicles 34:7; Isaiah
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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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_your images_ As marg., sun-images, i.e. symbols of the sun-god,
probably in the shape of a pyramid or obelisk. They stood beside the
altars. So again Ezekiel 6:6.
_your idols_ The term used is an opp...
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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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And your altars shall be desolate, and your images shall be broken:
and I will cast down your slain men before your idols.
IMAGES - called so from a Hebrew root [chaamam], to wax hot, implying
the...
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6:4 idols; (b-23) A term of contempt, used 38 times in Ezekiel. See
Leviticus 26:30 ; Deuteronomy 29:17 ; 1 Kings 21:26 ....
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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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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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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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YOUR IMAGES. — The original word indicates, as is shown in the
margin, that these were images used in connection with the worship of
the sun. The whole verse is taken from Leviticus 26:30. The same wo...
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וְ נָשַׁ֨מּוּ֙ מִזְבְּחֹ֣ותֵיכֶ֔ם וְ
נִשְׁבְּר֖וּ חַמָּֽנֵיכֶ֑ם...
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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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_Idols. Protestant marginal note, "sun-images," as [in] ver. 6. The
sun was much worshipped, chap. viii. 16. (Haydock)_...
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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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Hence it appears how greatly obedience pleases God, and how true it is
that it is better than sacrifices. (1 Samuel 15:22; 1 Kings 12:0.) For
it is certain that the _Israelites _extolled their own fic...
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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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AND YOUR ALTARS SHALL BE DESOLATE,.... Being pulled down; or because
the priests and worshippers would now be slain, and there would be
none to attend them:
AND YOUR IMAGES SHALL BE BROKEN; the "imag...
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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...
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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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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 YO...
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THE DESOLATION OF THE LAND AND THE SLAUGHTER OF THE IDOLATERS...
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IMAGES:
Or, sun images, and so vers. 6...
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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
ima...
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Ezekiel 6:4 altars H4196 desolate H8074 (H8738) altars H2553 broken
H7665 (H8738) down H5307 (H8689) slain...
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‘And the word of Yahweh came to me saying, “Son of man, set your
face towards the mountains of Israel, and prophesy to them, and say,
‘You mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord Yahweh, Thus
s...
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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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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 36:1; Ezekiel 36:8; Isaiah 27:9; Jeremiah 2:20; Jeremiah 22:2
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Cast down — Before the altars of your idols, which you fly to for
refuge....