Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Ezekiel 6:1-14
Ezekiel 6:3-4 . 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 altars, all the devices of men. The druids preferred a tabular rock unhewn, supported by three pillars, usually called cromlechs. They had no idols; but the apostate jews had their idols in some adjacent temple or covering. Ezekiel 6:5 . I will scatter your bones round about your altars. ... read more
Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 6:1-14
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 not worship to Jehovah God, but to Baal, to Molech, Mammon. And because the mountains were the places for these altars and groves and places of pagan worship, he addresses the prophesy against the mountain telling of the desolation that is going to come. How that they are going to be wasted without... read more