Ezekiel 6:6 In all your dwelling places the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate… 1. Where idols and false worship are got into a church or state, they are not easily got out again. Their cities must be destroyed, that their altars and idols may be broken and cease. 2. See what it is that ruins cities; altars, idols, false worship, mixtures of man's inventions with the Lord's pure ordinances. These are great cannon, that batter cities; these are gunpowder, that blow them up; these bring the Lord of hosts to war against them. 3. Idolatry and false worship do so provoke God, that He will destroy cities, kingdoms, churches, but He will have them out. 4. Men love to have somewhat of their own in worship; they are not content with what the infinitely wise God commends unto them, but will be adding. 5. God is not pleased with anything in worship which is not His own; He must prescribe whet way and wherewith He will be worshipped. 6. Judgments cause idolaters to know the true God from the false. (W. Greenhill, M. A.) Parallel Verses KJV: In all your dwellingplaces 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. |
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