George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Ezekiel 6:5
Bones. The Chaldeans violated the tombs, Baruch ii. 24., and Jeremias viii. 1. (Calmet)
Bones. The Chaldeans violated the tombs, Baruch ii. 24., and Jeremias viii. 1. (Calmet)
Verse Ezekiel 6:5. _WILL SCATTER YOUR BONES ROUND ABOUT YOUR ALTARS._] This was literally fulfilled by the Chaldeans. According to _Baruch_, _Baruch 2:24, 25_, they opened the sepulchres of the princi...
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...
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...
CHILDREN. sons, their. Some codices, with Vulgate, read "your"....
The same had already been threatened by Jeremiah 8:1-2....
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...
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,...
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. I WILL LAY THE DEAD CARCASSES OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL BEFORE...
6:5 idols; (b-15) A term of contempt, used 38 times in Ezekiel. See Leviticus 26:30 ; Deuteronomy 29:17 ; 1 Kings 21:26 ....
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...
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...
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...
וְ נָתַתִּ֗י אֶת ־פִּגְרֵי֙ בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל...
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...
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...
And I will lay the dead carcases of the children of Israel before their (c) idols; and I will scatter your bones about your altars. (c) In contempt of their power and force, which will neither be abl...
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...
By these words the Prophet signifies that God’s wrath would be manifest, because he impresses certain marks by which it may be judged that the Israelites had provoked his anger; because they had depar...
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,...
AND I WILL LAY THE DEAD CARCASSES OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL BEFORE THEIR IDOLS,.... Which is repeated for the confirmation of it: AND I WILL SCATTER YOUR BONES ROUND ABOUT YOUR ALTARS: which were rec...
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. Ver. 5. _And I will lay the dead carcases of the children of Isra...
_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...
And I will lay the dead carcasses of the children of Israel before their idols, as a proper votive offering; AND I WILL SCATTER YOUR BONES ROUND ABOUT YOUR ALTARS, a fitting mockery of their idolatrou...
THE DESOLATION OF THE LAND AND THE SLAUGHTER OF THE IDOLATERS...
LAY: _ Heb._ give DESOLATE THEN THE WILDERNESS: Or, desolate from the wilderness...
LAY BEFORE THEIR IDOLS; expose to open shame, while the carcasses of idolaters recall to mind their shameful folly and sin. CARCASSES; either of such as are newly slain, or such as the Chaldeans did d...
Ezekiel 6:5 lay H5414 (H8804) corpses H6297 children H1121 Israel H3478 before H6440 idols H1544 scatter H2219 ...
‘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...
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...
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...
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 6:1 These two extended oracles are both addressed to “geography”: the “mountains” (Ezekiel 6:2) and “land” ...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
1 Kings 13:2; 2 Chronicles 14:5; 2 Chronicles 34:4; 2 Chronicles 34:5;...
And — Thus the idols were upbraided with their inability to help their worshippers, and the idolaters, with the folly of trusting in them....