---
title: "Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible -  Ezekiel 6"
description: "CHAPTER 6   :-. CONTINUATION OF THE
SAME SUBJECT. 2. mountains of Israel—that
is, of Palestine in general. The mountains are addressed by
personification;"
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url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/commentaries/commentary-critical-and-explanatory-on-the-whole-bible/ezekiel/6"
---

CHAPTER 6

. CONTINUATION OF THE
SAME SUBJECT.

**2. mountains of Israel**—that
is, of Palestine in general. The *mountains* are addressed by
personification; implying that the Israelites themselves are
incurable and unworthy of any more appeals; so the prophet sent to
Jeroboam did not deign to address the king, but addressed the altar
([1 Kings 13:2](../../../kjv/1-kings/13/2)). The mountains are
specified as being the scene of Jewish idolatries on "the high
places" ([Ezekiel 6:3](../../../kjv/ezekiel/6/3); [Leviticus 26:30](../../../kjv/leviticus/26/30)).

**3. rivers**—literally, the
"channels" of torrents. Rivers were often the scene and
objects of idolatrous worship.

**4. images**—called so from a
*Hebrew* root, "to wax hot," implying the mad *ardor*
of Israel after idolatry [CALVIN].
Others translate it, "sun images"; and so in (see [2 Kings 23:11](../../../kjv/2-kings/23/11); [2 Chronicles 34:4](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/34/4);
[Isaiah 17:8](../../../kjv/isaiah/17/8), *Margin*).
**cast your slain men before
your idols**—The foolish objects of their trust in the day of
evil should witness their ruin.

**5. carcasses . . . before . . .
idols**—polluting thus with the dead bones of you, the
worshippers, the idols which seemed to you so sacrosanct.

**6. your works**—not gods, as you
supposed, but the mere work of men's hands ().

**7. ye shall know that I am the
Lord**—and not your idols, lords. Ye shall know Me as the
all-powerful Punisher of sin.

**8.** Mitigation of the extreme
severity of their punishment; still their life shall be a wretched
one, and linked with exile ([Ezekiel 5:2](../../../kjv/ezekiel/5/2);
[Ezekiel 5:12](../../../kjv/ezekiel/5/12); [Ezekiel 12:16](../../../kjv/ezekiel/12/16);
[Ezekiel 14:22](../../../kjv/ezekiel/14/22); [Jeremiah 44:28](../../../kjv/jeremiah/44/28)).

**9. they that escape of you shall
remember me**—The object of God's chastisements shall at last be
effected by working in them true contrition. This partially took
place in the complete eradication of idolatry from the Jews ever
since the Babylonian captivity. But they have yet to repent of their
crowning sin, the crucifixion of Messiah; their full repentance is
therefore future, after the ordeal of trials for many centuries,
ending with that foretold in [Zechariah 10:9](../../../kjv/zechariah/10/9);
[Zechariah 13:8](../../../kjv/zechariah/13/8); [Zechariah 13:9](../../../kjv/zechariah/13/9);
[Zechariah 14:1-4](../../../kjv/zechariah/14/1-4); [Zechariah 14:11](../../../kjv/zechariah/14/11).
"They shall *remember* me in far countries" ([Ezekiel 7:16](../../../kjv/ezekiel/7/16);
[Deuteronomy 30:1-8](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/30/1-8)).
**I am broken with their
whorish heart**—FAIRBAIRN
translates, actively, "I will break" their whorish heart;
*English Version* is better. In their exile they shall remember
how long I bore with them, but was at last compelled to punish, after
I was "broken" (My long-suffering wearied out) by their
desperate ([Numbers 15:39](../../../kjv/numbers/15/39)) spiritual
whorishness [CALVIN],
([Psalms 78:40](../../../kjv/psalms/78/40); [Isaiah 7:13](../../../kjv/isaiah/7/13);
[Isaiah 43:24](../../../kjv/isaiah/43/24); [Isaiah 63:10](../../../kjv/isaiah/63/10)).
**loathe themselves**—
([Leviticus 26:39-45](../../../kjv/leviticus/26/39-45); [Job 42:6](../../../kjv/job/42/6)).
They shall not wait for men to condemn them but shall condemn
themselves ([Ezekiel 20:43](../../../kjv/ezekiel/20/43); [Ezekiel 36:31](../../../kjv/ezekiel/36/31);
[Job 42:6](../../../kjv/job/42/6); [1 Corinthians 11:31](../../../kjv/1-corinthians/11/31)).

**11.** Gesticulations vividly
setting before the hearers the greatness of the calamity about to be
inflicted. In indignation at the abominations of Israel extend thine
hand towards Judea, as if about to "strike," and "stamp,"
shaking off the dust with thy foot, in token of how God shall
"stretch out His hand upon them," and *tread* them
down ([Ezekiel 6:14](../../../kjv/ezekiel/6/14); [Ezekiel 21:14](../../../kjv/ezekiel/21/14)).

**12. He that is far off**—namely,
from the foe; those who in a distant exile fear no evil.
**he that remaineth**—*he
that is left* in the city; not carried away into captivity, nor
having escaped into the country. Distinct from "he that is
near," namely, those outside the city who are within reach of
"the sword" of the foe, and so fall by it; not by "famine,"
as those left in the city.

**14. Diblath**—another form of
Diblathaim, a city in Moab ([Numbers 33:46](../../../kjv/numbers/33/46);
[Jeremiah 48:22](../../../kjv/jeremiah/48/22)), near which, east and
south of the Dead Sea, was the wilderness of Arabia-Deserta.

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