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BOOK 26 OF 66 · MAJOR PROPHETS · KING JAMES BIBLE

Ezekiel 6

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Ezekiel prophesies against the mountains of Israel because high places, altars, idols, and sun images have filled the land. The LORD announces destruction of these worship sites, yet a remnant among the nations will remember Him, loathe their idolatry, and know that He is the LORD.

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Before you read Ezekiel 6

Coming from

Ezekiel shaves his head and beard with a sword, divides the hair into thirds, and uses it to portray Jerusalem’s population: death by pestilence and famine, death by the sword, scattering to the nations, and only a small remnant preserved. The LORD explains the judgment as the result of extraordinary rebellion.

In this chapter

Ezekiel prophesies against the mountains of Israel because high places, altars, idols, and sun images have filled the land. The LORD announces destruction of these worship sites, yet a remnant among the nations will remember Him, loathe their idolatry, and know that He is the LORD.

Leads into

The LORD announces that “an end” has come upon the land. Disaster, violence, pride, famine, sword, and captivity will overturn ordinary commerce and social order; silver and gold will not deliver, the sanctuary will be profaned, and king, prince, priest, prophet, and people will all face the consequences.

Key understandingExplore deeper

The “mountains of Israel” are addressed because elevated places had become centers of unauthorized and idolatrous worship. The oracle is therefore not against geography itself but against the religious system spread across the land.

The repeated formula “ye shall know that I am the LORD” is central to Ezekiel. Judgment and restoration alike reveal that Israel’s God has acted according to His word and cannot be reduced to one tribal deity among many.

Major truths in this chapterExplore deeper

Idolatry corrupts the land it occupies

Altars and images are not harmless cultural objects when they represent rejection of the LORD.

God remembers a remnant in exile

Scattering is not the end of Israel’s story; some will remember the LORD among the nations.

True recognition of sin includes changed estimation of it

The survivors will loathe the evils and abominations they had once embraced.

Connections to the rest of ScriptureExplore deeper

Deuteronomy 12:2-4

Israel had been commanded to destroy pagan worship sites on mountains and hills rather than adopt them.

1 Kings 14:23

Judah’s high places, images, and groves show how the prohibited worship became entrenched.

Ezekiel 36

The mountains later receive a restoration oracle, creating a deliberate reversal from desolation to renewed fruitfulness.

What is clear, and where care is neededExplore deeper

Do not make mountains inherently evil or sacred.

The issue is what Israel did at the high places, not the physical elevation of the land.

Do not read the remnant’s self-loathing as a condition for receiving eternal life.

It describes moral recognition within Israel’s covenant restoration, not a works requirement for justification.

Read Ezekiel 6 watching for…

the mountains and high places addressed directly

altars and images being destroyed

the remnant scattered among the nations

the survivors remembering the LORD

the repeated “know that I am the LORD” formula

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Chapter outline3 sections
1-7The mountains of Israel are told that altars, idols, and slain worshippers will fall8-10A remnant among the nations will remember the LORD and loathe their evil ways11-14Ezekiel is told to lament because sword, famine, and pestilence will make the land desolate
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And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

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Son of man, set thy face toward the mountains of Israel, and prophesy against them,

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And say, Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus saith the Lord GOD to the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys; Behold, I, even I, will bring a sword upon you, and I will destroy your high places.

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

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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.

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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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And the slain shall fall in the midst of you, and ye shall know that I am the LORD.

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Yet will I leave a remnant, that ye may have some that shall escape the sword among the nations, when ye shall be scattered through the countries.

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And they that escape of you shall remember me among the nations whither they shall be carried captives, because I am broken with their whorish heart, which hath departed from me, and with their eyes, which go a whoring after their idols: and they shall lothe themselves for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations.

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And they shall know that I am the LORD, and that I have not said in vain that I would do this evil unto them.

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Thus saith the Lord GOD; Smite with thine hand, and stamp with thy foot, and say, Alas for all the evil abominations of the house of Israel! for they shall fall by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence.

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He that is far off shall die of the pestilence; and he that is near shall fall by the sword; and he that remaineth and is besieged shall die by the famine: thus will I accomplish my fury upon them.

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Then shall ye know that I am the LORD, when their slain men shall be among their idols round about their altars, upon every high hill, in all the tops of the mountains, and under every green tree, and under every thick oak, the place where they did offer sweet savour to all their idols.

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So will I stretch out my hand upon them, and make the land desolate, yea, more desolate than the wilderness toward Diblath, in all their habitations: and they shall know that I am the LORD.