Ezekiel 16:21

You have immolated my sons, and you have consecrated and delivered my sons to them.

Catholic Public Domain Version

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 you bore for me, and you immolated them to be devoured. Is your fornication a small matter?

22And after all your abominations and fornications, you have not remembered the days of your youth, when you were naked and full of shame, wallowing in your own blood.

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Cross References

Leviticus 20:1And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

2 Kings 17:17And they consecrated their sons and their daughters through fire. And they devoted themselves to divinations and soothsaying. And they delivered themselves into the doing of evil before the Lord, so that they provoked him.

2 Kings 23:10Also, he defiled Topheth, which is in the steep valley of the son of Hinnom, so that no one would consecrate his son or his daughter, through fire, to Molech.

Psalms 106:37And they sowed fields and planted vineyards, and they produced the fruit of nativity.

Ezekiel 20:26And I defiled them by their own gifts, when they offered everything that opened the womb, because of their offenses. And they shall know that I am the Lord.

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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