Ezekiel 6:4
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Your altars will be demolished and your incense altars will be smashed; and I will cast down your slain before your idols.”
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“Your altars will be demolished and your incense altars will be smashed; and I will cast down your slain before your idols.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“And your altars shall be desolate, and your images shall be broken: and I will cast down your slain men before your idols.”
King James Version · Public Domain“And your altars shall become desolate, and your sun-images shall be broken; and I will cast down your slain men before your idols.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“And desolated have been your altars, And broken your images, And I have caused your wounded to fall before your idols,”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Ezekiel 6:4 — 11 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Leviticus 26:30I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars, and heap your lifeless bodies on the lifeless remains of your idols; and My soul will despise you.
- 1 Kings 13:2And he cried out against the altar by the word of the LORD, “O altar, O altar, this is what the LORD says: ‘A son named Josiah will be born to the house of David, and upon you he will sacrifice the priests of the high places who burn incense upon you, and human bones will be burned upon you.’”
- 2 Kings 23:14He smashed the sacred pillars to pieces, cut down the Asherah poles, and covered the sites with human bones.
- 2 Kings 23:16And as Josiah turned, he saw the tombs there on the hillside, and he sent someone to take the bones out of the tombs, and he burned them on the altar to defile it, according to the word of the LORD proclaimed by the man of God who had foretold these things.
- 2 Chronicles 14:5He also removed the high places and incense altars from all the cities of Judah, and under him the kingdom was at peace.
- 2 Chronicles 34:4Then in his presence the altars of the Baals were torn down, and he cut to pieces the incense altars that were above them. He shattered the Asherah poles, the carved idols, and the cast images, crushed them to dust, and scattered them over the graves of those who had sacrificed to them.
- Jeremiah 7:32So behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when this place will no longer be called Topheth and the Valley of Hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter. For they will bury the dead in Topheth until there is no more room.
- Jeremiah 8:1“At that time,” declares the LORD, “the bones of the kings of Judah, the bones of the officials, the bones of the priests, the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the people of Jerusalem will be removed from their graves.
- Jeremiah 43:13He will demolish the sacred pillars of the temple of the sun in the land of Egypt, and he will burn down the temples of the gods of Egypt.’”
- Ezekiel 6:5I will lay the corpses of the Israelites before their idols and scatter your bones around your altars.
- Ezekiel 6:13Then you will know that I am the LORD, when their slain lie among their idols around their altars, on every high hill, on all the mountaintops, and under every green tree and leafy oak—the places where they offered fragrant incense to all their idols.
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