And say, Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus saith the Lord GOD to the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys; Behold, I, even I, will bring a sword upon you, and I will destroy your high places.
Now a clearer expression follows in the third verse: Thou shalt say, ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord. Here an audience is required of the mountains which they could not give, but that has respect to mankind, as I have just said.
The prophet must set his face against those mountains as a judge pronounces sentence on a prisoner. The mountains of Israel once were holy, but now polluted with idolatry; God's controversy will have a hearing whether men listen or refuse. Better to speak to the hills than to a people who stretch out their hands in vain and contradict the Lord's own messengers.
AI summary
Commenting on Ezekiel 6:1-7
And your altars shall be desolate,.... 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" (b). 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...