John Gill Commentary Ezekiel 6:4

"And your altars shall become desolate, and your sun-images shall be broken; and I will cast down your slain men before your idols." — Ezekiel 6:4 (ASV)

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" ^F2 . 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" ^F3 ; for the word used has the signification of dung, (Ezekiel 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.

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FOOTNOTES:

• F2: (Mkynmx) "simulacra vestra solis", Pagninus; "solaria vestra", Vatablus; "subdiales statuae vestrae", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Polanus.
• F3: (Mkylwlg ynpl) "coram stercoreis diis vestris", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Polanus; "coram stercoribus vestris", Cocceius.