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Ezekiel 16:21
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You slaughtered my children and gave them up when you passed them through the fire to the images.
that you have slain my children, and delivered them up, in causing them to pass through [the fire] to them?
That thou hast slain my children, and delivered them to cause them to pass through the fire for them?
that you slaughtered my children and delivered them up as an offering by fire to them?
"You slaughtered My children and offered them to idols by making them pass through the fire.
You killed my children and offered them up in fire to the idols.
"You slaughtered My children and offered them up to [worthless] idols, forcing them to pass through the [hideousness of the] fire.
that you have slain my children, and delivered them up, in causing them to pass through [the fire] to them?
That thou hast slaine my children, and deliuered them to cause them to passe through fire for them?
"You slaughtered My children and offered them up to idols by causing them to pass through the fire.
You slaughtered My children and gave them up to idols by causing them to pass through the fire.
You slaughtered My children and delivered them up through the fire to idols.
You slaughtered my children, so you could offer them as sacrifices.
killing my children, handing them over and setting them apart for [these idols]?
that thou didst slay my children and give them up in passing them over to them?
That you have slaughtered my children, and offered them to the idols after you had been ravished by them.
without taking my children and sacrificing them to idols?
And you slaughtered my children, and you gave them to be sacrificed to them.
You have slaughtered My sons, and you gave them to cause these to pass through the fire for them.
that thou slayest my children, and geuest them ouer, to be bret vnto them?
that thou hast slain my children, and delivered them up, in causing them to pass through the fire unto them?
That you put my children to death and gave them up to go through the fire to them?
that thou hast slain My children, and delivered them up, in setting them apart unto them?
That thou hast slaine my children, and deliuered them to cause them to passe through the fire for them?
And thou hast slayne my chyldren, and deliuered them, to cause them to passe [through the fire] for them.
and didst slay thy children, and gavest them up in offering them to them for an expiation.
that thou hast slain my children, and delivered them up, in causing them to pass through the fire unto them?
Thou offridist my sones, and yauest hem, and halewidist to tho.
that you have slain my sons, and delivered them up, in causing them to pass through [the fire] to them?
That thou hast slain my children, and delivered them to cause them to pass through [the fire] for them?
you slaughtered my children and sacrificed them to the idols.
that you have slain My children and offered them up to them by causing them to pass through the fire?
Must you also slaughter my children by sacrificing them to idols?
You killed My children and gave them as burnt gifts to false gods.
You slaughtered my children and delivered them up as an offering to them.
Yea thou didst slay my children, - And didst deliver them up. that they should be caused to pass through the fire unto them.
Thou hast sacrificed and given my children to them, consecrating them by fire.
that you slaughtered my children and delivered them up as an offering by fire to them?
That thou dost slaughter My sons, And dost give them up in causing them to pass over to them?
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
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my children: Psalms 106:37
to pass: Leviticus 18:21, Leviticus 20:1-5, Deuteronomy 18:10, 2 Kings 17:17, 2 Kings 21:6, 2 Kings 23:10
Reciprocal: Leviticus 20:2 - giveth 2 Kings 16:3 - made his son 2 Chronicles 28:3 - burnt Jeremiah 2:34 - Also Jeremiah 19:5 - to burn Jeremiah 32:35 - they built Ezekiel 16:20 - thy sons Ezekiel 16:36 - and by Ezekiel 16:38 - shed Ezekiel 16:45 - that loatheth Ezekiel 20:26 - in that Ezekiel 23:37 - have also Micah 6:7 - shall John 8:41 - we have
Gill's Notes on the Bible
That thou hast slain my children,.... By creation, as all born into the world are; and by national adoption, as all the Jewish children were; and particularly the firstborn were eminently his, and which are here designed, as Jarchi interprets it; for they were the children that were slain and sacrificed to Molech; see Ezekiel 20:26;
and delivered, them to cause them to pass through [the fire] for them? for the sake of idols, for the worship of them; this they did before they were slain; they first caused them to pass through between two fires, and so dedicated them to the idol, and then slew them; or slew them by burning them in the fire, or by putting them into the arms of the "idol", made burning hot.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Borne unto me - me is emphatic. The children of Yahweh have been devoted to Moloch. The rites of Moloch were twofold;
(1) The actual sacrifice of men and children as expiatory sacrifices to, false gods.
(2) The passing of them through the fire by way of purification and dedication.
Probably the first is alluded to in Ezekiel 16:20; the two rites together in Ezekiel 16:21.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Ezekiel 16:21. To cause them to pass through the fire — Bp. Newcome quotes a very apposite passage from Dionysius Halicarnass. Ant. Rom. lib. i., s. 88, p. 72, and marg. p. 75, Edit. Hudson: Μετα δε τουτο, πυρκαΐας προ των σκηνων γενεσθαι κελευσας, εξαγει τον λεων τας φλογας ὑπερθρωσκοντα,της ὁσιωσεως των μιασματων ἑνεκα. "And after this, having ordered that fires should be made before the tents, he brings out the people to leap over the flames, for the purifying of their pollutions." This example shows that we are not always to take passing through the fire for being entirely consumed by it. Among the Israelites this appears to have been used as a rite of consecration.
