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Matthew Poole and continuators on Ezekiel 6:4

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Ezekiel6:4

4 And your altars shall be desolate and your images shall be broken, and I will cast down your slain men before your altars.

Gods Altar was onely at Ierusalem, these were their Altars.

No Priest to attend, no Sacrifice offered, nor a Votary come to them.

Statues, and perhaps the particular Images made to the Sun, as the Heb. word including heat may signifie. Or the open places on tops of your Houses where you worshipt the Sun, 2 Kings 23.5. and Isaiah 27.9. mentions this piece of Idolatry.

Either tore down from their places to be carried Captives, which was a part of Heathen Conquerors insolence, or torn in pieces in contempt and to be destroyed.

My hand shall guide the pursuing Enemy who shall slay your men before the Altars of those Idols they worshipt formerly, and to whom, as senseless as the Idols, they fly to for refuge, as perhaps Senachereb did. Isa. 37.38.

Marginal references: Or▪ sun-images, and so ver. 6.; Lev. 26.30.

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