Ezekiel 16:21

and didst slay thy children, and gavest them up in offering them to them for an expiation.

Brenton Septuagint

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 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,

22This is beyond all thy fornication, and thou didst not remember thine infancy, when thou wast naked and bare, and didst live though defiled in thy blood.

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Cross References

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

2 Kings 17:17And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divinations and auspices, and + 17:17 Gr. were sold.sold themselves to work wickedness in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him.

2 Kings 23:10And he defiled Tapheth which is in the valley of the son of Ennom, constructed for a man to cause his son or his daughter to pass through + 23:10 Gr. in fire.fire to Moloch.

Psalms 106:37And they sow fields, and plant vineyards, and they yield fruit of increase.

Ezekiel 20:26And I will defile them by their own decrees, when I pass through upon every one that opens the womb, that I may destroy 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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