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Judgment against Idolatry

Ezekiel 6:4

In 11 translations

BSB
Your altars will be demolished and your incense altars will be smashed; and I will cast down your slain before your idols.
KJV
And your altars shall be desolate, and your images shall be broken: and I will cast down your slain men before your idols.images: or, sun images
WEB
Your altars will become desolate, and your incense altars will be broken. I will cast down your slain men before your idols.
ASV
And your altars shall become desolate, and your sun-images shall be broken; and I will cast down your slain men before your idols.
LSV
And your altars have been desolated, || And your images have been broken, || And I have caused your wounded to fall before your idols,
YLT
And desolated have been your altars, And broken your images, And I have caused your wounded to fall before your idols,
DBY
And your altars shall be desolate, and your sun-images shall be broken; and I will cast down your slain [men] before your idols;
DRC
And I will throw down your altars, and your idols shall be broken in pieces: and I will cast down your slain before your idols.
GNV
And your altars shalbe desolate, and your images of the sunne shalbe broken: and I will cast downe your slaine men before your idoles.
JPS
And your altars shall become desolate, and your sun-images shall be broken; and I will cast down your slain men before your idols.
LXXE
And your altars shall be broken to pieces, and your consecrated plats; and I will cast down your slain men before your idols.

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Original-language editions

WLC
וְנָשַׁ֨מּוּ֙ מִזְבְּח֣וֹתֵיכֶ֔ם וְנִשְׁבְּר֖וּ חַמָּֽנֵיכֶ֑ם וְהִפַּלְתִּי֙ חַלְלֵיכֶ֔ם לִפְנֵ֖י גִּלּוּלֵיכֶֽם׃
LXX-Br
Καὶ συντριβήσονται τὰ θυσιαστήρια ὑμῶν, καὶ τὰ τεμένη ὑμῶν, καὶ καταβαλῶ τραυματίας ὑμῶν ἐνώπιον τῶν εἰδώλων ὑμῶν,

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  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 2 Kings 23:14He smashed the sacred pillars to pieces, cut down the Asherah poles, and covered the sites with human bones.
  • 2 Chronicles 34:4–5Then 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,…
  • 2 Kings 23:16–20And 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…
  • 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…
  • 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.’”
  • Jeremiah 8:1–2“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…
  • Ezekiel 6:5–6I will lay the corpses of the Israelites before their idols and scatter your bones around your altars. Wherever you live, the cities will be laid waste and the high places will be demolished, so that your altars will…
  • 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…

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