# Ezekiel 06 📖: Judgment on the Mountains of Israel [[📚 Explore the Bible Books]] [[-Ezekiel Overview]] | [[Ezekiel 05]] | [[Ezekiel 07]] > [!info] Table of Contents > [[#📜 Scripture Text (NET)]] > [[#📖 Verse-by-Verse Commentary]] > [[#🤔 Interesting Facts / Historical and Cultural Insights]] > [[#🧠 Chapter Summary]] > [[#✝️ Christ in This Chapter]] > [[#🔎 Key Principles / 🛟 Life Application]] > [[#💬 Discussion Questions]] > [[#✍️ Key Verses to Remember]] > [[#🔗 Related Passages/Cross Reference]] > [[#🙏 Devotional Reflection]] > [[#📂 Internal Notes]] ## 📜 Scripture Text (NET) (The NET Bible: New English Translation. Biblical Studies Press, 2005) ### Judgment on the Mountains of Israel [[#Verse 01.]] The Lord’s message came to me: [[#Verse 02.]] “Son of man, turn toward the mountains of Israel and prophesy against them.  [[#Verse 03.]] Say, ‘Mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Sovereign Lord! This is what the Sovereign Lord says to the mountains and the hills, to the ravines and the valleys: I am bringing a sword against you, and I will destroy your high places. [[#Verse 04.]] Your altars will be ruined and your incense altars will be broken. I will throw down your slain in front of your idols.  [[#Verse 05.]] I will place the corpses of the people of Israel in front of their idols, and I will scatter your bones around your altars.  [[#Verse 06.]] In all your dwellings, the cities will be laid waste and the high places ruined so that your altars will be laid waste and ruined, your idols will be shattered and demolished, your incense altars will be broken down, and your works wiped out.  [[#Verse 07.]] The slain will fall among you and then you will know that I am the Lord. [[#Verse 08.]] “‘But I will spare some of you. Some will escape the sword when you are scattered in foreign lands.  [[#Verse 09.]] Then your survivors will remember me among the nations where they are exiled. They will realize how I was crushed by their unfaithful heart that turned from me and by their eyes that lusted after their idols. They will loathe themselves because of the evil they have done and because of all their abominable practices.  [[#Verse 10.]] They will know that I am the Lord; my threats to bring this catastrophe on them were not empty. [[#Verse 11.]] “‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Clap your hands, stamp your feet, and say, “Ah!” because of all the evil, abominable practices of the house of Israel, for they will fall by the sword, famine, and pestilence.  [[#Verse 12.]] The one far away will die by pestilence, the one close by will fall by the sword, and whoever is left and has escaped these will die by famine. I will fully vent my rage against them.  [[#Verse 13.]] Then you will know that I am the Lord when their dead lie among their idols around their altars, on every high hill and on all the mountaintops, under every green tree and every leafy oak—the places where they have offered fragrant incense to all their idols.  [[#Verse 14.]] I will stretch out my hand against them and make the land a desolate waste from the wilderness to Riblah, in all the places where they live. Then they will know that I am the Lord.’” ## 📖 Verse-by-Verse Commentary ###### Overall. ###### Verse 01. ###### Verse 02. ###### Verse 03. ###### Verse 04. ###### Verse 05. ###### Verse 06. ###### Verse 07. ###### Verse 08. ###### Verse 09. ###### Verse 10. ###### Verse 11. ###### Verse 12. ###### Verse 13. ###### Verse 14. ## 🤔 Interesting Facts / Historical and Cultural Insights 1. Ezekiel prophesies to the mountains themselves (6:2-3) because the pagan shrines were built on hills and high places. 2. The Hebrew word Ezekiel uses for idols, *gillulim*, may be related to a word for dung pellets. It was likely a deliberate insult. 3. Ezekiel uses *gillulim* far more than any other book of the Bible. 4. "Then you will know that I am the Lord" first appears in 6:7. Versions of it appear more than sixty times in Ezekiel. 5. Scattering human bones around the altars (6:5) would defile them, much as King Josiah defiled pagan altars (2 Kings 23:14-16). 6. The incense altars mentioned in 6:4 and 6:6 were small altars often found at shrines across Israel and Judah. 7. Worship "under every green tree" (6:13) echoes the command in Deuteronomy 12:2 to destroy such sites. 8. God calls their idolatry an "adulterous heart" (6:9), the same marriage language Hosea and Jeremiah used. 9. Clapping hands and stamping feet (6:11) were gestures of strong emotion and lament. 10. The place name in 6:14 reads "Diblah" in Hebrew manuscripts, but many scholars think it should read "Riblah," a city in Syria. ## 🧠 Chapter Summary > [!note] 🌱 Still growing. This section is on its way. ## ✝️ Christ in This Chapter Christ is the One who brings people home from their idols to the living God. God promised that a remnant would remember Him and loathe their sin (6:9), and through the gospel people still turn from idols to serve the living God and wait for His Son (1 Thessalonians 1:9-10). ## 🔎 Key Principles / 🛟 Life Application > [!note] 🌱 Still growing. This section is on its way. ## 💬 Discussion Questions 1. God was grieved by their adulterous hearts (6:9). Why does Scripture describe idolatry as unfaithfulness in a relationship? 2. The remnant would remember the Lord in exile and loathe their sins (6:9). How can hard seasons lead us back to God? 3. "Then you will know that I am the Lord" repeats throughout the chapter. What is God ultimately after, even in judgment? ## ✍️ Key Verses to Remember - 📖 verses 3-4: God will destroy the high places, altars, and idols. - 📖 verse 9: The survivors will remember the Lord and loathe themselves for their evil. - 📖 verse 10: They will know that the Lord did not threaten disaster for nothing. ## 🔗 Related Passages/Cross Reference - 🔗 [[Deuteronomy 12#Verse 02.|Deuteronomy 12:2-3]] - Destroy the places where the nations served their gods. - 🔗 [[Leviticus 26#Verse 30.|Leviticus 26:30]] - I will destroy your high places. - 🔗 [[2 Kings 23#Verse 13.|2 Kings 23:13-14]] - Josiah defiles the high places. - 🔗 [[1 Thessalonians 01#Verse 09.|1 Thessalonians 1:9-10]] - You turned to God from idols. - 🔗 [[1 John 05#Verse 21.|1 John 5:21]] - Little children, guard yourselves from idols. ## 🙏 Devotional Reflection 📝 SOAP: [[Ezekiel 06 - SOAP|Don’t Waste It]] ## 📂 Internal Notes