Ezekiel 16:20
And thou tookest thy sons and thy daughters, whom thou borest, and didst sacrifice these to them to be destroyed. Thou didst go a-whoring as if that were little,
Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
In Context
21and didst slay thy children, and gavest them up in offering them to them for an expiation.
Cross References
Genesis 17:7And I will establish my covenant between thee and thy seed after thee, to their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be thy God, and the God of thy seed after thee.
Exodus 13:12that thou shalt + 13:12 Or, separate.set apart every offspring opening the womb, the males to the Lord, every one that opens the womb out of the herds or among thy cattle, as many as thou shalt have: thou shalt sanctify the males to the Lord.
2 Kings 16:3And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yea, he made his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the heathen whom the Lord cast out from before the children of Israel.
Psalms 106:37And they sow fields, and plant vineyards, and they yield fruit of increase.
Isaiah 57:5who call upon idols under the leafy trees, slaying + 57:5 Gr. their.your children in the valleys among the rocks?
Jeremiah 3:24But shame has consumed the labours of our fathers from our youth; their sheep and their calves, and 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 →