Ezekiel 16:21

That thou hast slaughtered My banim, and offered them to cause them to pass through the eish for them? + 16:21 the idols

Orthodox Jewish 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 hast taken thy banim and thy banot, whom thou hast borne unto Me, and these hast thou sacrificed unto them + 16:20 the idols to be devoured. Was this thy zonah harlotry not enough,

22And in all thine to'avot and thy zonah harlotry thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, when thou wast erom (naked) and bare, and wast flailing about in thy dahm.

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Cross References

Leviticus 20:1And Hashem spoke unto Moshe, saying,

2 Kings 17:17And they caused their banim and their banot to pass through the eish, and practiced kesamim and practiced witchcraft, and sold themselves to do rah in the eyes of Hashem, to provoke Him to anger.

2 Kings 23:10And he made tameh Tophet, which is in the Gey of the ben Hinnom, that no ish might make his ben or his bat to pass through the eish to Molech.

Psalms 106:37And they sacrificed their banim 1 and their banot unto shedim (demons), 1

Ezekiel 20:26And I pronounced them tameh (unclean) because of their own [ritual] gifts, in that they caused to pass through the eish all that openeth the womb, that I might make them desolate, to the end that they might know that I am Hashem.

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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