Ezekiel 6:4 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 Your altars shall become desolate, and your incense stands shall be broken, and I will throw down your slain in front of your idols. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And your altars shall be desolate, and your images shall be broken: and I will cast down your slain men before your idols. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And your altars shall be made desolate and your sun-pillars shall be broken in pieces, and I will cast down your slain before your idols. [Lev. 26:30.] American Standard Version (1901) And your altars shall become desolate, and your sun-images shall be broken; and I will cast down your slain men before your idols. Common English Bible Your altars will be destroyed, your incense altars broken. And I’ll make your slain fall in front of your idols. Catholic Public Domain Version And I will demolish your altars. And your graven images will be broken apart. And I will throw down your slain before your idols. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version 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. |
And he cried out against the altar by the word of the Lord and said, “O altar, altar, thus says the Lord: A son shall be born to the house of David, Josiah by name, and he shall sacrifice on you the priests of the high places who offer incense on you, and human bones shall be burned on you.”
He broke the pillars in pieces, cut down the sacred poles, and covered the sites with human bones.
He also removed from all the cities of Judah the high places and the incense altars. And the kingdom was quiet under him.
Therefore by this the guilt of Jacob will be expiated, and this will be the full fruit of the removal of his sin: when he makes all the stones of the altars like chalkstones crushed to pieces; no sacred poles or incense altars will remain standing.
He shall break the obelisks of Heliopolis, which is in the land of Egypt, and the temples of the gods of Egypt he shall burn with fire.”
Therefore the days are surely coming, says the Lord, when it will no more be called Topheth or the valley of the son of Hinnom but the valley of Slaughter, for they will bury in Topheth until there is no more room.
And you shall know that I am the Lord when their slain lie among their idols around their altars, on every high hill, on all the mountaintops, under every green tree, and under every leafy oak, wherever they offered pleasing odor to all their idols.
I will destroy your high places and cut down your incense altars; I will heap your carcasses on the carcasses of your idols. I will abhor you.
But when they rose early on the next morning, Dagon had fallen on his face to the ground before the ark of the Lord, and the head of Dagon and both his hands were lying cut off upon the threshold; only the trunk of Dagon was left to him.