Ezekiel 6:5
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New International Version (©2011)
I will lay the dead bodies of the Israelites in front of their idols, and I will scatter your bones around your altars.

New Living Translation (©2007)
I will lay your corpses in front of your idols and scatter your bones around your altars.

English Standard Version (©2001)
And I will lay the dead bodies of the people of Israel before their idols, and I will scatter your bones around your altars.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"I will also lay the dead bodies of the sons of Israel in front of their idols; and I will scatter your bones around your altars.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
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.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
I will lay the corpses of the Israelites in front of their idols and scatter your bones around your altars.

International Standard Version (©2012)
I'll place the corpses of the Israelis in front of their idols. I'll scatter your bones around your altar.

NET Bible (©2006)
I will place the corpses of the people of Israel in front of their idols, and I will scatter your bones around your altars.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
I will lay the dead bodies of the people of Israel in front of your idols, and I will scatter their bones around your altars.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And I will lay the dead bodies of the children of Israel before their idols; and I will scatter your bones round about your altars.

American King James Version
And I will lay the dead carcasses of the children of Israel before their idols; and I will scatter your bones round about your altars.

American Standard Version
And I will lay the dead bodies of the children of Israel before their idols; and I will scatter your bones round about your altars.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And I will lay the dead carcasses of the children of Israel before your idols: and I will scatter Sour bones round about your altars,

Darby Bible Translation
and I will lay the dead bodies of the children of Israel before their idols; and I will scatter your bones round about your altars.

English Revised Version
And I will lay the carcases of the children of Israel before their idols; and I will scatter your bones round about your altars.

Webster's Bible Translation
And I will lay the dead carcasses of the children of Israel before their idols; and I will scatter your bones about your altars.

World English Bible
I will lay the dead bodies of the children of Israel before their idols; and I will scatter your bones around your altars.

Young's Literal Translation
And put the carcases of the sons of Israel before their idols, And scattered your bones round about your altars.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

6:1-7. War desolates persons, places, and things esteemed most sacred. God ruins idolatries even by the hands of idolaters. It is just with God to make that a desolation, which we make an idol. The superstitions to which many trust for safety, often cause their ruin. And the day is at hand, when idols and idolatry will be as thoroughly destroyed from the professedly Christian church as they were from among the Jews.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And I will lay the dead carcasses of the children of Israel before their idols,.... Which is repeated for the confirmation of it:

and I will scatter your bones round about your altars: which were reckoned a pollution of them; see 2 Kings 23:14.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

5. carcasses … before … idols—polluting thus with the dead bones of you, the worshippers, the idols which seemed to you so sacrosanct.

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Judgment against Idolatry
…4And your altars shall be desolate, and your images shall be broken: and I will cast down your slain men before your idols. 5And I will lay the dead carcasses of the children of Israel before their idols; and I will scatter your bones round about your altars. 6In all your dwelling places the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate; that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, and your idols may be broken and cease, and your images may be cut down, and your works may be abolished.

2 Kings 23:14 Josiah smashed the sacred stones and cut down the Asherah poles and covered the sites with human bones.
2 Kings 23:16 Then Josiah looked around, and when he saw the tombs that were there on the hillside, he had the bones removed from them and burned on the altar to defile it, in accordance with the word of the LORD proclaimed by the man of God who foretold these things.
Psalm 53:5 But there they are, overwhelmed with dread, where there was nothing to dread. God scattered the bones of those who attacked you; you put them to shame, for God despised them.
Jeremiah 8:1 "'At that time, declares the LORD, the bones of the kings and officials of Judah, the bones of the priests and prophets, and the bones of the people of Jerusalem will be removed from their graves.
Jeremiah 8:2 They will be exposed to the sun and the moon and all the stars of the heavens, which they have loved and served and which they have followed and consulted and worshiped. They will not be gathered up or buried, but will be like dung lying on the ground.
Ezekiel 43:7 He said: "Son of man, this is the place of my throne and the place for the soles of my feet. This is where I will live among the Israelites forever. The people of Israel will never again defile my holy name--neither they nor their kings--by their prostitution and the funeral offerings for their kings at their death.