Ezekiel 6:4

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. ¹ 

Ezekiel 36:25

36:25 I will sprinkle you with pure water ²  and you will be clean from all your impurities. I will purify you from all your idols.

Ezekiel 6:6

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. ³ 

Ezekiel 14:6

14:6 “Therefore say to the house of Israel, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Return! Turn from your idols, and turn your faces away from your abominations.

Ezekiel 33:25

33:25 Therefore say to them, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: You eat the meat with the blood still in it, ⁴  pray to ⁵  your idols, and shed blood. Do you really think you will possess ⁶  the land?

Ezekiel 20:31

20:31 When you present your sacrifices ⁷  – when you make your sons pass through the fire – you defile yourselves with all your idols to this very day. Will I allow you to seek me, ⁸  O house of Israel? As surely as I live, declares the sovereign Lord, I will not allow you to seek me! ⁹ 

[6:4]  ¹ tn Thirty-nine of the forty-eight biblical occurrences of this Hebrew word are found in the book of Ezekiel.

[36:25]  ² sn The Lord here uses a metaphor from the realm of ritual purification. For the use of water in ritual cleansing, see Exod 30:19-20; Lev 14:51; Num 19:18; Heb 10:22.

[6:6]  ³ tn The Hebrew verb translated “wiped out” is used to describe the judgment of the Flood (Gen 6:7; 7:4, 23).

[33:25]  ⁴ sn This practice was a violation of Levitical law (see Lev 19:26).

[33:25]  ⁵ tn Heb “lift up your eyes.”

[33:25]  ⁶ tn Heb “Will you possess?”

[20:31]  ⁵ tn Or “gifts.”

[20:31]  ⁶ tn Or “Will I reveal myself to you?”

[20:31]  ⁷ tn Or “I will not reveal myself to you.”