Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
I will cast down your altars, and break down your temples. Your slain men will I lay before your gods.
New American Standard Bible
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King James Version
And your altars shall be desolate, and your images shall be broken: and I will cast down your slain men before your idols.
Holman Bible
Your altars will be desolated and your incense altars smashed. I will throw down your slain in front of your idols.
International Standard Version
Your altars will become desolate and your sun pillars will be shattered. I'll throw your slain down right in front of your idols.
A Conservative Version
And your altars shall become desolate, and your sun-images shall be broken, and I will cast down your slain men before your idols.
American Standard Version
And your altars shall become desolate, and your sun-images shall be broken; and I will cast down your slain men before your idols.
Amplified
and your altars will become deserted and your pillars for sun-worship will be smashed in pieces; and I will throw down your slain in front of your idols [that cannot bring them back to life].
Bible in Basic English
And your altars will be made waste, and your sun-images will be broken: and I will have your dead men placed before your images.
Darby Translation
And your altars shall be desolate, and your sun-images shall be broken; and I will cast down your slain men before your idols;
Julia Smith Translation
And your altars were laid waste, and your images were broken: and I caused your wounded to fall before your blocks.
King James 2000
And your altars shall be desolate, and your images shall be broken: and I will cast down your slain men before your idols.
Lexham Expanded Bible
and your altars will be desolate, and your incense altars will be broken, and I will throw down your slain ones {before} your idols,
Modern King James verseion
And your altars shall be wasted, and your pillars shall be broken. And I will make fall your slain before your idols.
NET Bible
Your altars will be ruined and your incense altars will be broken. I will throw down your slain in front of your idols.
New Heart English Bible
Your altars shall become desolate, and your incense altars shall be broken; and I will cast down your slain men before your idols.
The Emphasized Bible
And your altars shall be laid waste, And your sun-pillars shall be broken in pieces, - And I will cause your slain to fall before your manufactured gods;
Webster
And your altars shall be desolate, and your images shall be broken: and I will cast down your slain men before your idols.
World English Bible
Your altars shall become desolate, and your incense altars shall be broken; and I will cast down your slain men before your idols.
Youngs Literal Translation
And desolated have been your altars, And broken your images, And I have caused your wounded to fall before your idols,
Themes
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Ezekiel 6:4
Verse Info
Context Readings
Idolatrous Worship And Idolatrous Objects Denounced
3 and say, 'Hear the word of the LORD God, O ye mountains of Israel: Thus hath the LORD God spoken to the mountains, hills, rivers, valleys and dales. Behold, I will bring a sword over you, and destroy your high places. 4 I will cast down your altars, and break down your temples. Your slain men will I lay before your gods. 5 And the dead carcasses of the children of Israel will I cast before their images, your bones will I straw round about your altars and dwelling places.
Phrases
Cross References
2 Chronicles 14:5
And he put away out of all the cities of Judah, the hill altars and the idols: for the kingdom was quiet before him.
Leviticus 26:30
And I will destroy your altars built upon high hills, and overthrow your images, and cast your carcasses upon the bodies of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.
1 Kings 13:2
and cried against the altar at the commandment of the LORD and said, "Altar, altar, thus sayeth the LORD: 'Behold, a child shall be born of the house of David, Josiah by name, which upon thee shall offer the priests of the hill altars that sacrifice upon thee, and shall burn men's bones upon thee.'"
2 Kings 23:14
and brake the images and cut down the groves and filled the places with the bones of men.
2 Kings 23:16-20
And as Josiah turned himself, he spied the graves that were in the mount and sent and fetched the bones out of the graves and burnt them upon the altar and polluted it according to the word of the LORD that the man of God had proclaimed, which openly had denounced the same things.
2 Chronicles 34:4-5
so that they brake down the altars of Baals even in his presence, and the Idols that were upon them he caused to be destroyed. And the groves, carved Images, and Images of metal he brake and made dust of them, and strawed it upon the graves of them that had offered to them.
Jeremiah 8:1-2
At the same time, sayeth the LORD, the bones of the kings of Judah, the bones of his princes, the bones of the priests and prophets, yea, and the bones of the citizens of Jerusalem, shall be brought out of their graves
Jeremiah 43:13
The pillars also of the temple of the Sun that is in Egypt shall he break in pieces, and burn the temples of the Egyptian's gods."
Ezekiel 6:5-6
And the dead carcasses of the children of Israel will I cast before their images, your bones will I straw round about your altars and dwelling places.
Ezekiel 6:13
And so shall ye learn to know that I am the LORD, when your slain men lie among your gods, and about your altars; upon all high hills and tops of mountains; among all green trees; among all thick oaks; even in the places where they did sacrifice to all their idols.