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Ezekiel 6:4

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible · John Gill (1697–1771) · Public Domain

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" .

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" ; for the word used has the signification of dung, Eze 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. Mkynmx "simulacra vestra solis", Pagninus; "solaria vestra", Vatablus; "subdiales statuae vestrae", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Polanus.

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