Read & Study the Bible Online - Bible Portal
Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Ezekiel 6:1-7

Here, I. The prophecy is directed to the mountains of Israel (Ezek. 6:1, 2); the prophet must set his face towards them. If he could see so far off as the land of Israel, the mountains of that land would be first and furthest seen; towards them therefore he must look, and look boldly and stedfastly, as the judge looks at the prisoner, and directs his speech to him, when he passes sentence upon him. Though the mountains of Israel be ever so high and ever so strong, he must set his face against... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 6:3

And say, ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord God ,.... Since the people of the Jews would not hear the word of the Lord, the mountains are called upon to hear it; unless the inhabitants of the mountains are meant: thus saith the Lord God to the mountains and to the hills, to the rivers and to the valleys : these are addressed, because idols were worshipped here; as upon the mountains and hills, so by rivers of water, and also in valleys, as in the valley of Hinnom idols... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 6:4

And your altars shall be desolate ,.... Being pulled down; or because the priests and worshippers would now be slain, and there would be none to attend them: and your images shall be broken ; the "images of the sun" F2 חמניכם "simulacra vestra solis", Pagninus; "solaria vestra", Vatablus; "subdiales statuae vestrae", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Polanus. . The word for images has its derivation from heat; and were so called, either from the heat of the sun, to whose worship... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 6:5

And I will lay the dead carcasses of the children of Israel before their idols ,.... Which is repeated for the confirmation of it: and I will scatter your bones round about your altars : which were reckoned a pollution of them; see 2 Kings 23:14 . read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 6:6

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 is said in Jeremiah 2:28 ; and the high places shall be desolate ; meaning such as were in cities; as, before, such as were built upon mountains and hills; see 2 Kings 23:5 ; that your altars may be laid waste and desolate ; as they must be, the cities being destroyed in which they... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 6:4

Your images shall be broken - Literally, your sun images; representations of the sun, which they worshipped. See the margin. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 6:5

Will scatter your bones round about your altars - This was literally fulfilled by the Chaldeans. According to Baruch, 2:24, 25, they opened the sepulchres of the principal people, and threw the bones about on every side. read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 6:3

Verse 3 Now a clearer expression follows in the third verse: Thou shalt say, ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord. Here an audience is required of the mountains which they could not give, but that has respect to mankind, as I have just said. God, therefore, requires the mountains to listen, so that men may understand that an inanimate thing may be endued with sense, if their stupidity is considered. For at length God enforced his judgments against the mountains of Israel. Although,... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 6:4

Verse 4 Hence it appears how greatly obedience pleases God, and how true it is that it is better than sacrifices. (1 Samuel 15:22; 1 Kings 12:0.) For it is certain that the Israelites extolled their own fictions exorbitantly, as if they were worshipping God correctly In the beginning, indeed, Jeroboam cunningly devised those new rites, that he might alienate the ten tribes from the family of David, and at length the error spread, so that they thought that God approved that impious worship. But... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 6:5

Verse 5 By these words the Prophet signifies that God’s wrath would be manifest, because he impresses certain marks by which it may be judged that the Israelites had provoked his anger; because they had departed from the pure and genuine order of the law. He says, therefore, I will place the carcases of the sons of Israel before their idols, when the carcases were so mingled with the idols, hence it appeared that God was greatly offended. For we know that it was detestable in all sacrifices... read more

Group of Brands