King James Version
Ezekiel 6:4 in the King James Version says “And your altars shall be desolate, and your images shall be broken: and I will cast down your slain men before your idol...” — study this verse from Ezekiel chapter 6 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And your altars shall be desolate, and your images shall be broken: and I will cast down your slain men before your idols. images: or, sun images”
Ezekiel 6:4 · KJV
Son of man, set thy face toward the mountains of Israel, and prophesy against them,
And say, Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus saith the Lord GOD to the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys; Behold, I, even I, will bring a sword upon you, and I will destroy your high places.
And your altars shall be desolate, and your images shall be broken: and I will cast down your slain men before your idols. images: or, sun images
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. lay: Heb. give
In all your dwellingplaces the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate; that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, and your idols may be broken and cease, and your images may be cut down, and your works may be abolished.
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“shall be desolate”
H8074to stun (or intransitively, grow numb), i.e., devastate or (figuratively) stupefy (both usually in a passive sense)
“and I will cast down”
H5307to fall, in a great variety of applications (intransitive or causative, literal or figurative)
“men before”
H6440the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposi
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