Ezekiel 6:5 Parallel Translations

I will lay the dead bodies of the people of Israel in front of your idols, and I will scatter their bones around your altars.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

And I will lay the dead carcases of the children of Israel before their idols; and I will scatter your bones round about your altars.

ASV:

And I will lay the dead bodies of the children of Israel before their idols; and I will scatter your bones round about your altars.

BBE:

And I will put the dead bodies of the children of Israel in front of their images, sending your bones in all directions about your altars.

DBY:

and I will lay the dead bodies of the children of Israel before their idols; and I will scatter your bones round about your altars.

ERV:

And I will lay the carcases of the children of Israel before their idols; and I will scatter your bones round about your altars.

JPS:

And I will lay the carcasses of the children of Israel before their idols; and I will scatter your bones round about your altars.

WBS:

And I will lay the dead carcasses of the children of Israel before their idols; and I will scatter your bones about your altars.

WEB:

I will lay the dead bodies of the children of Israel before their idols; and I will scatter your bones around your altars.

YLT:

And put the carcases of the sons of Israel before their idols, And scattered your bones round about your altars.

Ezekiel 6:5 Cross References

XREF:

2 Kings 23:14 He broke in pieces the sacred pillars and cut down the Asherim and filled their places with human bones.

2 Kings 23:16 Now when Josiah turned, he saw the graves that were there on the mountain, and he sent and took the bones from the graves and burned them on the altar and defiled it according to the word of the LORD which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these things.

Jeremiah 8:1 "At that time," declares the LORD, "they will bring out the bones of the kings of Judah and the bones of its princes, and the bones of the priests and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem from their graves.

Jeremiah 8:2 "They will spread them out to the sun, the moon and to all the host of heaven, which they have loved and which they have served, and which they have gone after and which they have sought, and which they have worshiped. They will not be gathered or buried; they will be as dung on the face of the ground. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

6:5 And I will lay the dead carcases of the children of Israel before their {c} idols; and I will scatter your bones about your altars.
(c) In contempt of their power and force, which will neither be able to deliver you or themselves.

WES:

6:5 And - Thus the idols were upbraided with their inability to help their worshippers, and the idolaters, with the folly of trusting in them.

MHC:

6:1-7. War desolates persons, places, and things esteemed most sacred. God ruins idolatries even by the hands of idolaters. It is just with God to make that a desolation, which we make an idol. The superstitions to which many trust for safety, often cause their ruin. And the day is at hand, when idols and idolatry will be as thoroughly destroyed from the professedly Christian church as they were from among the Jews.

CONC:

Altars Bodies Bones Carcases Carcasses Dead Directions Front Idols Images Israelites Lay Round Scatter Scattered Sending Sons

Altars Bodies Bones Carcases Carcasses Children Dead Directions Front Idols Images Israel Israelites Lay Round Scatter Scattered Sending

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