Ezekiel 6:5

World English Bible (2000)

I will lay the dead bodies of the children of Israel before their idols; and I will scatter your bones around your altars.

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Referenced Verses

  • 2 Kgs 23:14 : 14 He broke in pieces the pillars, and cut down the Asherim, and filled their places with the bones of men.
  • 2 Kgs 23:16 : 16 As Josiah turned himself, he spied the tombs that were there in the mountain; and he sent, and took the bones out of the tombs, and burned them on the altar, and defiled it, according to the word of Yahweh which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these things.
  • Jer 8:1-2 : 1 At that time, says Yahweh, 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 army of the sky, which they have loved, and which they have served, and after which they have walked, and which they have sought, and which they have worshiped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried, they shall be for dung on the surface of the earth.

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  • Ezek 6:3-4
    2 verses
    87%

    3 and say, You mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord Yahweh: Thus says the Lord Yahweh to the mountains and to the hills, to the watercourses and to the valleys: Behold, I, even I, will bring a sword on you, and I will destroy your high places.

    4 Your altars shall become desolate, and your incense altars shall be broken; and I will cast down your slain men before your idols.

  • Ezek 6:6-7
    2 verses
    83%

    6 In all your dwelling places the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate; that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, and your idols may be broken and cease, and your incense altars may be cut down, and your works may be abolished.

    7 The slain shall fall in the midst of you, and you shall know that I am Yahweh.

  • Lev 26:29-33
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    82%

    29 You will eat the flesh of your sons, and you will eat the flesh of your daughters.

    30 I will destroy your high places, and cut down your incense altars, and cast your dead bodies upon the bodies of your idols; and my soul will abhor you.

    31 I will lay your cities waste, and will bring your sanctuaries to desolation, and I will not take delight in the sweet fragrance of your offerings.

    32 I will bring the land into desolation; and your enemies that dwell therein will be astonished at it.

    33 I will scatter you among the nations, and I will draw out the sword after you: and your land will be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste.

  • Ezek 6:13-14
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    76%

    13 You shall know that I am Yahweh, when their slain men shall be among their idols around their altars, on every high hill, on all the tops of the mountains, and under every green tree, and under every thick oak, the places where they offered pleasant aroma to all their idols.

    14 I will stretch out my hand on them, and make the land desolate and waste, from the wilderness toward Diblah, throughout all their habitations: and they shall know that I am Yahweh.

  • Jer 8:1-2
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    75%

    1 At that time, says Yahweh, 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 army of the sky, which they have loved, and which they have served, and after which they have walked, and which they have sought, and which they have worshiped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried, they shall be for dung on the surface of the earth.

  • 2 Chr 34:5
    73%

    5 He burnt the bones of the priests on their altars, and purged Judah and Jerusalem.

  • Ezek 5:9-11
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    9 I will do in you that which I have not done, and whereunto I will not do any more the like, because of all your abominations.

    10 Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of you, and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments on you; and the whole remnant of you will I scatter to all the winds.

    11 Therefore, as I live, says the Lord Yahweh, surely, because you have defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable things, and with all your abominations, therefore will I also diminish [you]; neither shall my eye spare, and I also will have no pity.

  • Ezek 32:5
    73%

    5 I will lay your flesh on the mountains, and fill the valleys with your height.

  • Jer 6:21
    72%

    21 Therefore thus says Yahweh, "Behold, I will lay stumbling blocks before this people. The fathers and the sons together shall stumble against them. The neighbor and his friend shall perish."

  • Num 14:32
    72%

    32 But as for you, your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness.

  • 2 Kgs 23:16
    72%

    16 As Josiah turned himself, he spied the tombs that were there in the mountain; and he sent, and took the bones out of the tombs, and burned them on the altar, and defiled it, according to the word of Yahweh which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these things.

  • Ezek 14:5
    72%

    5 that I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols.

  • 2 Kgs 23:14
    72%

    14 He broke in pieces the pillars, and cut down the Asherim, and filled their places with the bones of men.

  • Mic 5:13-14
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    72%

    13 I will cut off your engraved images and your pillars out of your midst; and you shall no more worship the work of your hands.

    14 I will uproot your Asherim out of your midst; and I will destroy your cities.

  • Ezek 11:6-7
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    72%

    6 You have multiplied your slain in this city, and you have filled its streets with the slain.

    7 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Your slain whom you have laid in its midst, they are the flesh, and this [city] is the caldron; but you shall be brought forth out of its midst.

  • Isa 57:5
    72%

    5 you who inflame yourselves among the oaks, under every green tree; who kill the children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks?

  • Hos 10:2
    72%

    2 Their heart is divided. Now they will be found guilty. He will demolish their altars. He will destroy their sacred stones.

  • Jer 1:16
    72%

    16 I will utter my judgments against them touching all their wickedness, in that they have forsaken me, and have burned incense to other gods, and worshiped the works of their own hands.

  • Mic 1:6-7
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    72%

    6 Therefore I will make Samaria like a rubble heap of the field, like places for planting vineyards; and I will pour down its stones into the valley, and I will uncover its foundations.

    7 All her idols will be beaten to pieces, and all her temple gifts will be burned with fire, and all her images I will destroy; for of the hire of a prostitute has she gathered them, and to the hire of a prostitute shall they return."

  • Ezek 5:14
    72%

    14 Moreover I will make you a desolation and a reproach among the nations that are around you, in the sight of all that pass by.

  • Mic 5:11
    72%

    11 I will cut off the cities of your land, and will tear down all your strongholds.

  • Deut 7:5
    72%

    5 But you shall deal with them like this: you shall break down their altars, and dash their pillars in pieces, and cut down their Asherim, and burn their engraved images with fire.

  • Ezek 22:15
    71%

    15 I will scatter you among the nations, and disperse you through the countries; and I will consume your filthiness out of you.

  • Jer 19:7
    71%

    7 I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place; and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hand of those who seek their life: and their dead bodies will I give to be food for the birds of the sky, and for the animals of the earth.

  • Ezek 20:31
    71%

    31 and when you offer your gifts, when you make your sons to pass through the fire, do you pollute yourselves with all your idols to this day? and shall I be inquired of by you, house of Israel? As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, I will not be inquired of by you;

  • Ezek 6:9
    71%

    9 Those of you that escape shall remember me among the nations where they shall be carried captive, how that I have been broken with their lewd heart, which has departed from me, and with their eyes, which play the prostitute after their idols: and they shall loathe themselves in their own sight for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations.

  • Ezek 37:11
    71%

    11 Then he said to me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost; we are clean cut off.

  • Ps 141:7
    71%

    7 "As when one plows and breaks up the earth, our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol."

  • Ezek 24:5
    71%

    5 Take the choice of the flock, and also a pile [of wood] for the bones under [the caldron]; make it boil well; yes, let its bones be boiled in its midst.

  • Amos 8:3
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    3 The songs of the temple will be wailings in that day," says the Lord Yahweh. "The dead bodies will be many. In every place they will throw them out with silence.

  • 1 Kgs 9:7
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    7 then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have made holy for my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all peoples.

  • Nah 1:14
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    14 Yahweh has commanded concerning you: "No more descendants will bear your name. Out of the house of your gods, will I cut off the engraved image and the molten image. I will make your grave, for you are vile."

  • Ezek 23:39
    70%

    39 For when they had slain their children to their idols, then they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it; and behold, thus have they done in the midst of my house.

  • Ezek 5:4
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    4 Of these again you shall take, and cast them into the midst of the fire, and burn them in the fire; from it shall a fire come forth into all the house of Israel.

  • Ezek 16:36
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    36 Thus says the Lord Yahweh, Because your filthiness was poured out, and your nakedness uncovered through your prostitution with your lovers; and because of all the idols of your abominations, and for the blood of your children, that you gave to them;

  • Ezek 33:28
    70%

    28 I will make the land a desolation and an astonishment; and the pride of her power shall cease; and the mountains of Israel shall be desolate, so that none shall pass through.

  • Amos 3:14
    70%

    14 "For in the day that I visit the transgressions of Israel on him, I will also visit the altars of Bethel; and the horns of the altar will be cut off, and fall to the ground.