UHezekile 16:21

Izhibhalo Ezingcwele

21 ukuba nje ubasike oonyana bam, ubanikele ngokubacandisa bona emlilweni ngenxa yayo?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

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.