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Your altars shall become desolate, and your sun-images shall be broken; and I will cast down your slain men before your idols.
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The Irony of Divine Judgment
Commentators highlight a grim poetic justice in this verse. The Israelites who worshipped false gods would be slain right in front of them. Under Mosaic Law, a dead body was a primary source of ritual defilement. Therefore, the very idols they adored would be polluted by the corpses of their own followers, powerfully demonstrating their impurity and powerlessness.
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Ezekiel
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Images - See the margin and margin reference, and the (Ezekiel 8:16) note.
Idols - The Phoenicians were in the hab…
19th Century
Anglican
Your images. —The original word indicates, as the margin shows, that these were images used in connection with the worship of the …
16th Century
Protestant
Therefore, it appears how greatly obedience pleases God, and how true it is that obedience is better than sacrifices (1 Samuel 15:22; […
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And your altars shall be desolate Being pulled down; or because the priests and worshippers would now be slain, and …
