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Ezekiel 6:4

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 opprobrious or contemptuous epithet, applied to idols, though its precise meaning is doubtful. Most probably it means block-gods; though others connect it with the word dung (ch. Ezekiel 4:12) and render dung-gods, which is less probable. The term occurs in Ez. nearly 40 times, otherwise Leviticus 26:30; Deuteronomy 29:17; Jeremiah 50:2; 1 Kings 15:12; 1Ki 21:26; 2 Kings 17:12; 2 Kings 21:11; 2Ki 21:21; 2 Kings 23:24. These idols were probably of Jehovah for the most part.

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  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

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  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

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  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

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  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

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  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

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  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

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  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

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  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

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  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

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  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

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  • Summarized Bible Commentary

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  • The Pulpit Commentaries

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  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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