Ezekiel 16:20
And thou hast taken thy sons, and thy daughters, whom thou hast borne to me: and best sacrificed the same to them to be devoured. Is thy fornication small?
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
21Thou hast sacrificed and given my children to them, consecrating them by fire.
Cross References
Genesis 17:7And I will establish my covenant between me and thee, and between thy sad after thee in their generations, by a perpetual covenant: to be a God to thee, and to thy seed after thee.
Exodus 13:12Thou shalt set apart all that openeth the womb for the Lord, and all that is first brought forth of thy cattle: whatsoever thou shalt have of the male sex, thou shalt consecrate to the Lord.
2 Kings 16:3But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel: moreover he consecrated also his son, making him pass through the fire according to the idols of the nations: which the Lord destroyed before the children of Israel.
Psalms 106:37And they sacrificed their sons, and their daughters to devils.
Isaiah 57:5Who seek your comfort in idols under every green tree, sacrificing children in the torrents, under the high rocks?
Jeremiah 3:24Confusion hath devoured the labor of our fathers from our youth, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.
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 →