Ezekiel 6:4

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

Cross-reference

Ezekiel 6:5 Parallel

Ezekiel 6:5 continues the scene: dead bodies before idols and bones scattered around altars, intensifying the judgment.

Ezekiel 6:13 summarizes the judgment — people slain among idols and altars on every high hill, under every tree.

Leviticus 26:30 is the covenant curse Ezekiel echoes: destroyed high places, incense altars, and dead bodies on idols.

2 Kings 23:14 records Josiah covering idol sites with human bones — matching the bones-scattered imagery here.

2 Kings 23:16–20 Prophetic fulfillment

2 Kings 23:16-20 details Josiah burning bones on altars and killing priests — directly fulfilling the desecration pictured here.

In 2 Chronicles 34:4, Josiah smashes altars and incense altars — a direct parallel to the destruction decreed here.

2 Chronicles 34:5 shows Josiah burning priests' bones on their altars — the same desecration Ezekiel depicts.

In 2 Chronicles 14:5, Asa removes high places and incense altars — a righteous counterpart to the judgment here.

In Jeremiah 8:2, the bones are exposed to the sun, moon, and stars they worshipped, directly linking the desecration to idolatry.

Jeremiah 43:13 describes Nebuchadnezzar demolishing sacred pillars in Egypt — a similar judgment on idolatry.

In Jeremiah 8:1, bones are removed from graves, extending the desecration beyond the slain before idols — a parallel judgment on the dead.