4 Your altars will be demolished and your incense altars will be smashed; and I will slay your people in front of your idols.

Other Translations of Ezekiel 6:4

King James Version

4 And your altars shall be desolate, and your images images: or, sun images shall be broken: and I will cast down your slain men before your idols.

English Standard Version

4 Your altars shall become desolate, and your incense altars shall be broken, and I will cast down your slain before your idols.

The Message

4 I'll level your altars, bust up your sun-god pillars, and kill your people as they bow down to your no-god idols.

New King James Version

4 Then your altars shall be desolate, your incense altars shall be broken, and I will cast down your slain men before your idols.

New Living Translation

4 All your altars will be demolished, and your places of worship will be destroyed. I will kill your people in front of your idols.

Matthew Henry's Commentary on Ezekiel 6:4

Commentary on Ezekiel 6:1-7

(Read Ezekiel 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.