Ezekiel 6:5
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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.I will lay the corpses of the Israelites before their idols and scatter your bones around your altars.
In other translations
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.I will lay the corpses of the Israelites before their idols and scatter your bones around your altars.
Hebrew words
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Related verses
- 2 Kings 23:16And as Josiah turned himself, he spied the sepulchres that were there in the mount, and sent, and took the bones out of the sepulchres, and burned them upon the altar, and polluted it, according to the word of the Lord which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these words.And as Josiah turned, he saw the tombs there on the hillside, and he sent someone to take the bones out of the tombs, and he burned them on the altar to defile it, according to the word of the LORD proclaimed by the man of God who had foretold these things.
- Jeremiah 8:1-21 At that time, saith the Lord, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves: 2 And they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of heaven, whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and after whom they have walked, and whom they have sought, and whom they have worshipped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried; they shall be for dung upon the face of the earth.1 “At that time,” declares the LORD, “the bones of the kings of Judah, the bones of the officials, the bones of the priests, the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the people of Jerusalem will be removed from their graves. 2 They will be exposed to the sun and moon, and to all the host of heaven which they have loved, served, followed, consulted, and worshiped. Their bones will not be gathered up or buried, but will become like dung lying on the ground.
- 2 Kings 23:14And he brake in pieces the images, and cut down the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men.He smashed the sacred pillars to pieces, cut down the Asherah poles, and covered the sites with human bones.
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People and places
People: Jacob