Ezekiel 6:5

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And I will put the dead bodies of the children of Israel in front of their images, sending your bones in all directions about your altars.

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Referenced Verses

  • 2 Kgs 23:14 : 14 The stone pillars were broken to bits and the wood pillars cut down, and the places where they had been were made full of the bones of the dead.
  • 2 Kgs 23:16 : 16 Then Josiah, turning round, saw on the mountain the places of the dead, and he sent and had the bones taken out of their places and burned on the altar, so making it unclean, as the Lord had said by the man of God when Jeroboam was in his place by the altar on that feast-day. And he, turning his eyes to the resting-place of the man of God who had given word of these things, said:
  • Jer 8:1-2 : 1 At that time, says the Lord, they will take the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his rulers, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the people of Jerusalem out of their resting-places: 2 And they will put them out before the sun and the moon and all the stars of heaven, whose lovers and servants they have been, after whom they have gone, to whom they have made prayers, and to whom they have given worship: they will not be put together or placed in the earth; they will be waste on the face of the earth.

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  • Ezek 6:3-4
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    3 You mountains of Israel, give ear to the words of the Lord: this is what the Lord has said to the mountains and the hills, to the waterways and the valleys: See, I, even I, am sending on you a sword for the destruction of your high places.

    4 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.

  • Ezek 6:6-7
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    6 In all your living-places the towns will become broken walls, and the high places made waste; so that your altars may be broken down and made waste, and your images broken and ended, and so that your sun-images may be cut down and your works rubbed out.

    7 And the dead will be falling down among you, and you will be certain that I am the Lord.

  • Lev 26:29-33
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    29 Then you will take the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters for food;

    30 And I will send destruction on your high places, overturning your perfume altars, and will put your dead bodies on your broken images, and my soul will be turned from you in disgust.

    31 And I will make your towns waste and send destruction on your holy places; I will take no pleasure in the smell of your sweet perfumes;

    32 And I will make your land a waste, a wonder to your haters living in it.

    33 And I will send you out in all directions among the nations, and my sword will be uncovered against you, and your land will be without any living thing, and your towns will be made waste.

  • Ezek 6:13-14
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    13 And you will be certain that I am the Lord, when their dead men are stretched among their images round about their altars on every high hill, on all the tops of the mountains, and under every branching tree, and under every thick oak-tree, the places where they made sweet smells to all their images.

    14 And my hand will be stretched out against them, making the land waste and unpeopled, from the waste land to Riblah, through all their living-places: and they will be certain that I am the Lord.

  • Jer 8:1-2
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    1 At that time, says the Lord, they will take the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his rulers, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the people of Jerusalem out of their resting-places:

    2 And they will put them out before the sun and the moon and all the stars of heaven, whose lovers and servants they have been, after whom they have gone, to whom they have made prayers, and to whom they have given worship: they will not be put together or placed in the earth; they will be waste on the face of the earth.

  • 2 Chr 34:5
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    5 And he had the bones of the priests burned on their altars, and so he made Judah and Jerusalem clean.

  • Ezek 5:9-11
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    9 And I will do in you what I have not done and will not do again, because of all your disgusting ways.

    10 For this cause fathers will take their sons for food among you, and sons will make a meal of their fathers; and I will be judge among you, and all the rest of you I will send away to every wind.

    11 For this cause, by my life, says the Lord, because you have made my holy place unclean with all your hated things and all your disgusting ways, you will become disgusting to me; my eye will have no mercy and I will have no pity.

  • Ezek 32:5
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    5 And I will put your flesh on the mountains, and make the valleys full of your blood.

  • Jer 6:21
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    21 For this reason the Lord has said, See, I will put stones in the way of this people: and the fathers and the sons together will go falling over them; the neighbour and his friend will come to destruction.

  • Num 14:32
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    32 But as for you, your dead bodies will be stretched in this waste land.

  • 2 Kgs 23:16
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    16 Then Josiah, turning round, saw on the mountain the places of the dead, and he sent and had the bones taken out of their places and burned on the altar, so making it unclean, as the Lord had said by the man of God when Jeroboam was in his place by the altar on that feast-day. And he, turning his eyes to the resting-place of the man of God who had given word of these things, said:

  • Ezek 14:5
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    5 So as to take the children of Israel in the thoughts of their hearts, because they have become strange to me through their false gods.

  • 2 Kgs 23:14
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    14 The stone pillars were broken to bits and the wood pillars cut down, and the places where they had been were made full of the bones of the dead.

  • Mic 5:13-14
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    13 I will have your Asherahs pulled up from among you: and I will send destruction on your images.

    14 And my punishment will be effected on the nations with such burning wrath as they have not had word of.

  • Ezek 11:6-7
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    6 You have made great the number of your dead in this town, you have made its streets full of dead men.

    7 For this reason the Lord has said: Your dead whom you have put down in its streets, they are the flesh, and this town is the cooking-pot: but I will make you come out from inside it.

  • Isa 57:5
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    5 You who are burning with evil desire among the oaks, under every green tree; putting children to death in the valleys, under the cracks of the rocks?

  • Hos 10:2
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    2 Their mind is taken away; now they will be made waste: he will have their altars broken down, he will give their pillars to destruction.

  • Jer 1:16
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    16 And I will give my decision against them on account of all their evil-doing; because they have given me up, burning perfumes to other gods and worshipping the works of their hands.

  • Mic 1:6-7
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    6 So I will make Samaria into a field and the plantings of a vine-garden: I will send its stones falling down into the valley, uncovering its bases.

    7 And all her pictured images will be hammered into bits, and all the payments for her loose ways will be burned with fire, and all the images of her gods I will make waste: for with the price of a loose woman she got them together, and as the price of a loose woman will they be given back.

  • Ezek 5:14
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    14 And I will make you a waste and a name of shame among the nations round about you, in the eyes of everyone who goes by.

  • Mic 5:11
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    11 I will put an end to your use of secret arts, and you will have no more readers of signs:

  • Deut 7:5
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    5 But this is what you are to do to them: their altars are to be pulled down and their pillars broken, and their holy trees cut down and their images burned with fire.

  • Ezek 22:15
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    15 And I will send you in flight among the nations and wandering among the countries; and I will completely take away out of you everything which is unclean.

  • Jer 19:7
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    7 I will make the purpose of Judah and Jerusalem come to nothing in this place; I will have them put to the sword by their haters, and by the hands of those who have designs on their life; and their dead bodies I will give to be food for the birds of heaven and the beasts of the earth.

  • Ezek 20:31
    71%

    31 And when you give your offerings, causing your sons to go through the fire, you make yourselves unclean with all your images to this day; and will you come to me for directions, O children of Israel? By my life, says the Lord, you will get no direction from me.

  • Ezek 6:9
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    9 And those of you who are kept safe will have me in mind among the nations where they have been taken away as prisoners, how I sent punishment on their hearts which were untrue to me, and on their eyes which were turned to their false gods: and they will be full of hate for themselves because of the evil things which they have done in all their disgusting ways.

  • Ezek 37:11
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    11 Then he said to me, Son of man, these bones are all the children of Israel: and see, they are saying, Our bones have become dry our hope is gone, we are cut off completely.

  • Ps 141:7
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    7 Our bones are broken up at the mouth of the underworld, as the earth is broken by the plough.

  • Ezek 24:5
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    5 Take the best of the flock, put much wood under it: see that its bits are boiling well; let the bones be cooked inside it.

  • Amos 8:3
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    3 And the songs of the king's house will be cries of pain in that day, says the Lord God: great will be the number of the dead bodies, and everywhere they will put them out without a word.

  • 1 Kgs 9:7
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    7 Then I will have Israel cut off from the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have made holy for myself, I will put away from before my eyes; and Israel will be a public example, and a word of shame among all peoples.

  • Nah 1:14
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    14 The Lord has given an order about you, that no more of your name are to be planted: from the house of your gods I will have the pictured and metal images cut off; I will make your last resting-place a place of shame; for you are completely evil.

  • Ezek 23:39
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    39 For when she had made an offering of her children to her images, she came into my holy place to make it unclean; see, this is what she has done inside my house.

  • Ezek 5:4
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    4 And again take some of these and put them in the fire, burning them up in the fire; and say to all the children of Israel,

  • Ezek 16:36
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    36 This is what the Lord has said: Because your unclean behaviour was let loose and your body uncovered in your loose ways with your lovers and with your disgusting images, and for the blood of your children which you gave to them;

  • Ezek 33:28
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    28 And I will make the land a waste and a cause of wonder, and the pride of her strength will come to an end; and the mountains of Israel will be made waste so that no one will go through.

  • Amos 3:14
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    14 For in the day when I give Israel punishment for his sins, I will send punishment on the altars of Beth-el, and the horns of the altar will be cut off and come down to the earth.