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 they were devoted, or from the heat of the love and affections of their worshippers:

and I will cast down your slain men before your idols ; before your dung, or your "dunghill gods" F3 לפני גלוליכם "coram stercoreis diis vestris", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Polanus; "coram stercoribus vestris", Cocceius. ; for the word used has the signification of dung, Ezekiel 4:12 . The Targum renders it,

"before the carcass of your idols;'

where they committed idolatry, there they should be slain; which points at the cause of their punishment.