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...
WASTE. Reference to Pentateuch (Leviticus 26:31). App-92....
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...
_your works_ the works of your hands, the idols. All the cumulative phrases in the verse are wanting in LXX. viz. "and made desolate," "and cease," "and your works may be abolished." The term "abolish...
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,...
In all your dwellingplaces the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate; that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, and your idols may be broken and cease, and you...
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...
MAY BE ABOLISHED. — The word _abolished_ is a strong one, meaning utterly obliterated, wiped out. This was what Israel should have done to the nations who inhabited Canaan before them; they and their...
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...
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...
In other words, the Prophet signifies that God would take vengeance on the superstitions of the ten tribes in all places; whence it is _clear, _that no corner was free from corruption. For, while he n...
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,...
IN ALL YOUR DWELLING PLACES YOUR CITIES SHALL BE LAID WASTE,.... Which denotes that the desolation should be general, wherever they had cities and places to dwell in; the idolatry being universal, as...
In all your dwellingplaces the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate; that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, and your idols may be broken and cease, and your...
_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...
In all your dwelling-places, that is, throughout the country occupied by them, THE CITIES SHALL BE LAID WASTE, AND THE HIGH PLACES SHALL BE DESOLATE, heaps of ruins, THAT YOUR ALTARS MAY BE LAID WASTE...
THE DESOLATION OF THE LAND AND THE SLAUGHTER OF THE IDOLATERS...
Mountains and hills with their altars were doomed, now the cities that were of less note than Jerusalem seem particularly to be threatened, because they were idolatrous; according to the number of cit...
Ezekiel 6:6 places H4186 cities H5892 waste H2717 (H8799) places H1116 desolate H3456 (H8799) altars H4196 waste...
“In all your dwelling places the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate, that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, and your idols may be broken and cease, and yo...
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...
_That your altars may be laid waste._ FALSE WORSHIP 1. Where idols and false worship are got into a church or state, they are not easily got out again. Their cities must be destroyed, that their alt...
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...
Ezekiel 6:5...
Your works — All your costly work for your idols....