Ezekiel 6:5
Good News Translation
I will scatter the corpses of the people of Israel; I will scatter their bones all around the altars.

New Revised Standard Version
I will lay the corpses of the people of Israel in front of their idols; and I will scatter your bones around your altars.

Contemporary English Version
Dead bodies and bones will be lying around the idols and the altars.

New American Bible
Yes, I will lay the corpses of the Israelites in front of their idols, and scatter your bones around your altars.

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

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

lay [heb] give

Context
Judgment Against Idolatry
4And I will throw down your altars, and your idols shall be broken in pieces: and I will cast down your slain before your idols. 5And I will lay the dead carcasses of the children of Israel before your 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 thrown down, and destroyed, and your altars shall be abolished, and shall be broken in pieces: and your idols shall be no more, and your temples shall be destroyed, and your works shall be defaced.…
Cross References
2 Kings 23:14
And he broke in pieces the statues, and cut down the groves: and he filled their places with the bones of dead men.

2 Kings 23:16
And as Josias turned himself, he saw there the sepulchres that were in the mount: and he sent and took the bones out of the sepulchres, and burnt them upon the altar, and defiled it according to the word of the Lord, which the man of God spoke, who had foretold these things.

Psalm 53:5
They have not called upon God: there have they trembled for fear, where there was no fear. For God hath scattered the bones of them that please men: they have been confounded, because God hath despised them.

Jeremiah 8:1
At that time, saith the Lord, they shall cast out the bones of the kings of Juda, and the bones of the princes thereof, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves.

Jeremiah 8:2
And they shall spread them abroad to the sun, and the moon, and all the host of heaven, whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and after whom have walked, and whom they have sought, and adored: they shall not be gathered, and they shall not be buried: they shall be as dung upon the face of the earth.

Ezekiel 43:7
Said to me: Son of man, the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, where I dwell in the midst of the children of Israel for ever: and the house of Israel shall no more profane my holy name, they and their kings by their fornications, and by the carcasses of their kings, and by the high places.

Ezekiel 6:4
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