Ezekiel 6:4 NIV

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 6:4

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

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

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

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 6:1-6

The idolatry of the land avenged. Turning from the city of Jerusalem to the land generally, the Prophet Ezekiel addresses himself to Israel, the nation whom God had chosen, and who had rejected God. By a striking figure of speech, he delivers his message to the mountains and hills, the water courses and ravines of Palestine. How dear all these features of the land of his fathers must have been to the prophet, we can easily imagine; national and religious associations must, in the course of... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 6:1-7

The land involved in man's punishment. We have here a dramatic appeal to the stony hills of Palestine. Canaan is emphatically a mountainous country; and Ezekiel, speaking as the mouthpiece of God, addresses himself to the high places of Canaan, as the scenes of flagrant idolatry. From his residence by the banks of Chebar he could not see with his bodily eye these renowned, but now desecrated, hills; yet he sees them with the clear eye of imagination. His fervid appeal to these loved hills... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 6:1-7

The impotence of idols. "And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, Son of man, set thy thee toward the mountains of Israel," etc. The former prophecies related chiefly to the city of Jerusalem and the laud of Judah. But this one relates to the whole of the land of Israel. Hence the Lord God, through his prophet, addresses "the mountains and the hills," etc. ( Ezekiel 6:3 ). The burden of this chapter is a proclamation of Divine judgment because of the idolatry of the people. This,... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 6:4

Your images, etc. The "sun images" of the Revised Version shows why these are mentioned as distinct from the "idols." The chammanim were pillars or obelisks identified with the worship of Baal as the sun god, standing on his altars ( 2 Chronicles 34:4 ), coupled with the "groves," or Asherim ( Isaiah 17:8 ; Isaiah 27:9 ), and with the "high places" in 2 Chronicles 14:5 . I will cast down your slain men before your idols. As in the prophecy against Bethel ( 1 Kings 13:2 ), and... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Ezekiel 6:4

Images - See the margin and margin reference, and the Ezekiel 8:16 note.Idols - The Phoenicians were in the habit of setting up “heaps” or “pillars” of stone in honor of their gods, which renders the use of the word more appropriate. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Ezekiel 6:2-7

Ezekiel 6:2-7. 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 of Israel, Judah being called Israel, because the ten tribes, generally distinguished by that name, had been long since carried captive into Assyria, and Judah possessed a great part of their country. And prophesy against them Direct thy discourse to them. The prophets... read more

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

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

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

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

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 6:1-6

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 6:1-7

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 6:1-7

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 6:4

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Ezekiel 6:4

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Ezekiel 6:2-7

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