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Text -- Ezekiel 6:1-14 (NET)
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Context
Judgment on the Mountains of Israel
6:1 The word of the Lord came to me:
6:2 “Son of man , turn toward the mountains of Israel and prophesy against them:
6:3 Say , ‘Mountains of Israel , Hear the word of the sovereign Lord ! This is what the sovereign Lord says to the mountains and the hills , to the ravines and the valleys : I am bringing a sword against you, and I will destroy your high places .
6:4 Your altars will be ruined and your incense altars will be broken . I will throw down your slain in front of your idols .
6:5 I will place the corpses of the people of Israel in front of their idols , and I will scatter your bones around your altars .
6:6 In all your dwellings , the cities will be laid waste and the high places ruined so that your altars will be laid waste and ruined , your idols will be shattered and demolished , your incense altars will be broken down , and your works wiped out .
6:7 The slain will fall among you and then you will know that I am the Lord .
6:8 “‘But I will spare some of you. Some will escape the sword when you are scattered in foreign lands .
6:9 Then your survivors will remember me among the nations where they are exiled . They will realize how I was crushed by their unfaithful heart which turned from me and by their eyes which lusted after their idols . They will loathe themselves because of the evil they have done and because of all their abominable practices .
6:10 They will know that I am the Lord ; my threats to bring this catastrophe on them were not empty .’
6:11 “‘This is what the sovereign Lord says : Clap your hands , stamp your feet , and say , “Ah !” because of all the evil , abominable practices of the house of Israel , for they will fall by the sword , famine , and pestilence .
6:12 The one far away will die by pestilence , the one close by will fall by the sword , and whoever is left and has escaped these will die by famine . I will fully vent my rage against them.
6:13 Then you will know that I am the Lord – when their dead lie among their idols around their altars , on every high hill and all the mountaintops , under every green tree and every leafy oak , the places where they have offered fragrant incense to all their idols .
6:14 I will stretch out my hand against them and make the land a desolate waste from the wilderness to Riblah , in all the places where they live . Then they will know that I am the Lord !”
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Names, People and Places:
Dictionary Themes and Topics:
Idolatry |
Israel |
IMAGES |
Diblath |
HIGH PLACE |
SUN-WORSHIP |
Sun |
RIVER |
Afflictions and Adversities |
TEREBINTH |
WATERCOURSE |
Heart |
Prophecy |
Minister |
Dead Body |
Almon-Diblathaim |
OAK |
CARCASS; CARCASE |
COLOR; COLORS |
ABOLISH |
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NET Notes: Eze 6:2 Based on comparison to a similar expression in Ugaritic, the phrase may imply that Ezekiel was to actually go to these locations to deliver his messag...
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NET Notes: Eze 6:3 The Hebrew term refers to elevated platforms where pagan sacrifices were performed.
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NET Notes: Eze 6:4 This verse is probably based on Lev 26:30 in which God forecasts that he will destroy their high places, cut off their incense altars, and set their c...
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NET Notes: Eze 6:5 This first sentence, which explains the meaning of the last sentence of the previous verse, does not appear in the LXX and may be an instance of a mar...
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NET Notes: Eze 6:6 The Hebrew verb translated “wiped out” is used to describe the judgment of the Flood (Gen 6:7; 7:4, 23).
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NET Notes: Eze 6:7 The phrase you will know that I am the Lord concludes over sixty oracles in the book of Ezekiel and indicates the ultimate goal of God’s action....
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NET Notes: Eze 6:8 Heb “when you have fugitives from the sword among the nations, when you are scattered among the lands.”
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NET Notes: Eze 6:10 Heb “not in vain did I speak to do to them this catastrophe.” The wording of the last half of v. 10 parallels God’s declaration afte...
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NET Notes: Eze 6:11 By the sword and by famine and by pestilence. A similar trilogy of punishments is mentioned in Lev 26:25-26. See also Jer 14:12; 21:9; 27:8, 13; 29:18...
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NET Notes: Eze 6:13 By referring to every high hill…all the mountaintops…under every green tree and every leafy oak Ezekiel may be expanding on the phraseolog...
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