John Gill's Exposition on Ezekiel 6:4

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And your altars shall be desolate, &c.] 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”f97. 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”f98; for the word used has the signification of dung, (<260412>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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