Ezequiel 6:4

Your images. — The original word indicates, as is shown in the margin, that these were images used in connection with the worship of the sun. The whole verse is taken from Levítico 26:30. The same woes were there foretold by Moses in the contingency of the people’s disobedience; that contingency had now come to pass, the promised judgments had already begun, and Ezekiel declares that the fulfilment of them was close at hand.

Your slain men before your idols. — Their idols should be worshipped no longer by the living, but by the prostrate bodies of their dead worshippers. In this and the following verse a kind of poetic justice is described. There was nothing so utterly defiling under the Mosaic law as the touch of a dead body. (See Números 9:6; 2 Reis 23:14; 2 Reis 23:16.) The Israelites had defiled the land with idols, now the idols themselves should be defiled with their dead bodies.