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Ezekiel 6:3

Literal Fulfillment Destruction / Perishing Language Prophetic Methods of Communication

“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.”

And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,

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

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.

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

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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Literal Fulfillment

While the destruction of "high places" could be interpreted literally, the address to "mountains, hills, rivers, and valleys" might be a metaphorical personification of the land and its inhabitants, rather than a literal destruction of geographical features.

Destruction / Perishing Language

While the verse uses "destroy," it explicitly targets "high places" and the physical landscape, not the "wicked" as people, making its connection to the theme of the *fate of the wicked* ambiguous.

Prophetic Methods of Communication

The verse describes the content of a prophetic message ("Thus saith the Lord God") and to whom it is directed, but it does not explicitly detail the method by which Ezekiel received this message from God. The focus is on the message itself and its recipients, not the mechanics of its transmission to the prophet.

Literal Fulfillment

Related Verses

Ezekiel 36:6

“Prophesy therefore concerning the land of Israel, and say unto the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I have spoken in my jealousy and in my fury, because ye have borne the shame of the heathen:”

Ezekiel 35:8

“And I will fill his mountains with his slain men: in thy hills, and in thy valleys, and in all thy rivers, shall they fall that are slain with the sword.”

Ezekiel 6:13

“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.”

Ezekiel 6:6

“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.”

Ezekiel 6:2

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

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