And I will lay the dead carcases of the children of Israel before their idols; and I will scatter your bones round about your altars.
God marks His wrath visibly by laying corpses before idols, a defilement so plain that even the wilfully blind ought to see it. Their sacred rites, which they treasured, are made to stink before unbelievers; their altars polluted by death itself. When prophetic word fails on hardened ears, God writes His judgment in actual fact.
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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.
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Commenting on Ezekiel 6:1-7
The desolation spreads everywhere their cities stood, because their idolatry was everywhere. Altars broken, idols shattered, images cut down, every device of their devising abolished, not just the works of their hands, but the inventions of their brain that defied God's pure word and worship.
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