4And your altars shall be desolate, and your images shall be broken: and I will cast down your slain men before your idols.
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Also he took away out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the images: and the kingdom was quiet before him.
And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.
And he brake in pieces the images, and cut down the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men.
And I will lay the dead carcases of the children of Israel before their idols; and I will scatter your bones round about your altars. …
He shall break also the images of Bethshemesh, that is in the land of Egypt; and the houses of the gods of the Egyptians shall he burn with fire.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-7)Here, I. The prophecy is directed to the mountains of Israel ( Ezek. 6:1 , 2 ); the prophet must set his face towards them. If he could see so far off as the land of Israel, the mountains of that land would be first and furthest seen; towards them therefore he must look, and look boldly and stedfastly, as the judge looks at the prisoner, and directs his speech to him, when he passes sentence upon…
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