Ezekiel 6:4
Good News Translation
The altars will be torn down and the incense altars broken. All the people there will be killed in front of their idols.

New Revised Standard Version
Your altars shall become desolate, and your incense stands shall be broken; and I will throw down your slain in front of your idols.

Contemporary English Version
Every altar will be smashed, and in front of the idols I will put to death the people who worship them.

New American Bible
Your altars shall be laid waste, your incense stands smashed, and I will throw your slain down in front of your idols.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And I will throw down your altars, and your idols shall be broken in pieces: and I will cast down your slain before your idols.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And I will throw down your altars, and your idols shall be broken in pieces: and I will cast down your slain before your idols.

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Ezekiel 6:6 In 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.

2 Chronicles 14:5 And he took away out of all the cities of Juda the altars, and temples, and reigned in peace.

2 Chronicles 34:4 And they broke down before him the altars of Baalim, and demolished the idols that had been set upon them: and he cut down the groves and the graven things, and broke them in pieces: and strewed the fragments upon the graves of them that had sacrificed to them.

Jeremiah 43:13 And he shall break the statues of the house of the sun, that are in the land of Egypt; and the temples of the gods of Egypt he shall burn with fire.

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Ezekiel 6:5,13 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, . . .

Leviticus 26:30 I will destroy your high places, and break your idols. You shall fall among the ruins of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.

1 Kings 13:2 And he cried out against the altar in the word of the Lord, and said: O altar, altar, thus saith the Lord: Behold a child shall be born to the house of David, Josias by name, and he shall immolate upon thee the priests of the high places, who now burn incense upon thee, and he shall burn men's bones upon thee.

2 Kings 23:14,16-20 And he broke in pieces the statues, and cut down the groves: and he filled their places with the bones of dead men. . . .

2 Chronicles 34:5 And he burnt the bones of the priests on the altars of the idols, and he cleansed Juda and Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 8:1,2 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. . . .

Context
Judgment Against Idolatry
3And say: Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord God: Thus saith the Lord God to the mountains, and to the hills, and to the rocks, and the valleys: Behold, I will bring upon you the sword, and I will destroy your high places. 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,…
Cross References
Leviticus 26:30
I will destroy your high places, and break your idols. You shall fall among the ruins of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.

1 Samuel 5:4
And the next day again, when they rose in the morning, they found Dagon lying upon his face on the earth before the ark of the Lord: and the head of Dagon, and both the palms of his hands, were cut off upon the threshold:

2 Chronicles 14:5
And he took away out of all the cities of Juda the altars, and temples, and reigned in peace.

Isaiah 27:9
Therefore upon this shall the iniquity of the house of Jacob be forgiven: and this is all the fruit, that the sin thereof should be taken away, when he shall have made all the stones of the altar, as burnt stones broken in pieces, the groves and temples shall not stand.

Ezekiel 6:6
In 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.

Ezekiel 6:13
And you shall know that I am the Lord, when your slain shall be amongst your idols, round about your altars, in every high hill, and on all the tops of mountains, and under every woody tree, and under every thick oak, the place where they burnt sweet smelling frankincense to all their idols.

Ezekiel 6:3
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