Ezekiel 16:21

That you put my children to death and gave them up to go through the fire to them?

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

That thou hast slain my children, and delivered them to cause them to pass through the fire for them?

In Context

20And you took your sons and your daughters whom I had by you, offering even these to them to be their food. Was your loose behaviour so small a thing,

22And in all your disgusting and false behaviour you had no memory of your early days, when you were uncovered and without clothing, stretched out in your blood.

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Cross References

Leviticus 20:1And the Lord said to Moses,

2 Kings 17:17And they made their sons and their daughters go through the fire, and they made use of secret arts and unnatural powers, and gave themselves up to doing evil in the eyes of the Lord, till he was moved to wrath.

2 Kings 23:10And Topheth, in the valley of the sons of Hinnom, he made unclean, so that no man might make his son or his daughter go through the fire to Molech.

Psalms 106:37They even made offerings of their sons and their daughters to evil spirits,

Ezekiel 20:26I made them unclean in the offerings they gave, causing them to make every first child go through the fire, so that I might put an end to them.

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 16:16-35

Ingratitude of Israel; Shameful Idolatry of Israel. ( b. c. 593.) 15 But thou didst trust in thine own beauty, and playedst the harlot because of thy renown, and pouredst out thy fornications on every one that passed by; his it was. 16 And of thy garments thou didst take, and deckedst thy high places with divers colours, and playedst the harlot thereupon: the like things shall not come, neither shall it be so. 17 Thou hast also taken thy fair jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given thee, and madest… Read the whole commentary →

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