Ezekiel addresses the mountains (6:1). Perhaps the reason Ezekiel is told to speak to the mountains is that the majority of the people lived in the highlands rather than in the valleys. For a completely different emphasis (restoration), when for a second time Ezekiel prophesies to the mountains, see Ezekiel 36:1. The high places God will destroy are not the mountains (though juxtaposition of the two is deliberate). They are sacrificial platforms on a natural height. They represent phenomena in Israel’s religious praxis that originally may have been innocent and only later became blasphemous. Altars for sacrifice and altars for incense will also be destroyed, along with idols. This Hebrew word for “idols” is used thirty-nine times in Ezekiel. It may be that the Hebrew for “idols” is to be …