Ezekiel 16:21

that thou didst slay my children, and deliver them up to cause them to pass through the fire to them?

Noyes Bible

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

20Moreover thou didst take thy sons and thy daughters, whom thou didst bear to me, and these didst thou sacrifice to them to be devoured. Was it not enough for thee to commit fornication,

22And in all thine abominations and thy fornications, thou didst not remember the days of thy youth, when thou wast naked and bare, and in danger of being trampled under foot in thy blood.

Read all of Ezekiel 16

Cross References

Psalms 106:37Their sons and their daughters they sacrificed to demons,

Ezekiel 20:26And I polluted them in their offerings, in that they caused every first-born child to pass through the fire, that I might destroy them, to the end that they might know that I am Jehovah.

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 →

This Verse In Other Editions

Study Ezekiel 16:21