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Ezekiel 16:21

Sin

19 My meat also which I gave thee, fine flour, and oil, and honey, wherewith I fed thee, thou hast even set it before them for a sweet savour: and thus it was, saith the Lord GOD.

20 Moreover thou hast taken thy sons and thy daughters, whom thou hast borne unto me, and these hast thou sacrificed unto them to be devoured. Is this of thy whoredoms a small matter,

That thou hast slain my children, and delivered them to cause them to pass through the fire for them?

22 And in all thine abominations and thy whoredoms thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, when thou wast naked and bare, and wast polluted in thy blood.

23 And it came to pass after all thy wickedness, (woe, woe unto thee! saith the Lord GOD;)

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This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
You slaughtered My children and delivered them up through the fire to idols.
KJV
That thou hast slain my children, and delivered them to cause them to pass through the fire for them?
WEB
that you have slain my children and delivered them up, in causing them to pass through the fire to them?
ASV
that thou hast slain my children, and delivered them up, in causing them to pass through [the fire] unto them?
DARBY
that thou didst slay my children and give them up in passing them over to them?
BLB
And you have slain My children, and have given them by causing them to pass through to them!
ÅB
siden du slaktet mine barn og gav dem bort - lot dem gå igjennom ilden for dem?
OTB
Du satte mine barn til døden og ofret dem til avguder ved å føre dem gjennom ilden.
B1930
siden du slaktet mine barn og gav dem bort - lot dem gå igjennem ilden for dem?

Study notes (Tyndale)

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Cross references

  • 2 Kings 17:17

    And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.

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  • Deuteronomy 18:10

    There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch,

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  • Leviticus 18:21

    And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through the fire to Molech, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the LORD.

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  • Jeremiah 19:5

    They have built also the high places of Baal, to burn their sons with fire for burnt offerings unto Baal, which I commanded not, nor spake it, neither came it into my mind:

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  • 2 Kings 21:6

    And he made his son pass through the fire, and observed times, and used enchantments, and dealt with familiar spirits and wizards: he wrought much wickedness in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.

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  • Psalms 106:37

    Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils,

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  • 2 Kings 23:10

    And he defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the children of Hinnom, that no man might make his son or his daughter to pass through the fire to Molech.

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  • Leviticus 20:1–5

    And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

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