Ezekiel 16:21
◄  Ezekiel 16:21  ►
New International Version (©2011)
You slaughtered my children and sacrificed them to the idols.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Must you also slaughter my children by sacrificing them to idols?

English Standard Version (©2001)
that you slaughtered my children and delivered them up as an offering by fire to them?

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"You slaughtered My children and offered them up to idols by causing them to pass through the fire.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
That thou hast slain my children, and delivered them to cause them to pass through the fire for them?

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
You slaughtered My children and gave them up when you passed them through the fire to the images.

International Standard Version (©2012)
you also slaughtered my sons and offered them to idols, incinerating them in fire.

NET Bible (©2006)
you slaughtered my children and sacrificed them to the idols.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
You slaughtered my children and presented them as burnt offerings to idols.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
That you have slain my children, and delivered them to cause them to pass through the fire for them?

American King James Version
That you have slain my children, and delivered them to cause them to pass through the fire for them?

American Standard Version
that thou hast slain my children, and delivered them up, in causing them to pass through the fire unto them?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou hast sacrificed and given my children to them, consecrating them by fire.

Darby Bible Translation
that thou didst slay my children and give them up in passing them over to them?

English Revised Version
that thou hast slain my children, and delivered them up, in causing them to pass through the fire unto them?

Webster's Bible Translation
That thou hast slain my children, and delivered them to cause them to pass through the fire for them?

World English Bible
that you have slain my children, and delivered them up, in causing them to pass through [the fire] to them?

Young's Literal Translation
That thou dost slaughter My sons, And dost give them up in causing them to pass over to them?

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

16:1-58 In this chapter God's dealings with the Jewish nation, and their conduct towards him, are described, and their punishment through the surrounding nations, even those they most trusted in. This is done under the parable of an exposed infant rescued from death, educated, espoused, and richly provided for, but afterwards guilty of the most abandoned conduct, and punished for it; yet at last received into favour, and ashamed of her base conduct. We are not to judge of these expressions by modern ideas, but by those of the times and places in which they were used, where many of them would not sound as they do to us. The design was to raise hatred to idolatry, and such a parable was well suited for that purpose.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire 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.

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Jerusalem's Unfaithfulness
…20Moreover you have taken your sons and your daughters, whom you have borne to me, and these have you sacrificed to them to be devoured. Is this of your prostitutions a small matter, 21That you have slain my children, and delivered them to cause them to pass through the fire for them? 22And in all your abominations and your prostitutions you have not remembered the days of your youth, when you were naked and bore, and were polluted in your blood. …

Exodus 13:2 "Consecrate to me every firstborn male. The first offspring of every womb among the Israelites belongs to me, whether human or animal."
2 Kings 17:17 They sacrificed their sons and daughters in the fire. They practiced divination and sought omens and sold themselves to do evil in the eyes of the LORD, arousing his anger.
Psalm 106:37 They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to false gods.
Jeremiah 19:5 They have built the high places of Baal to burn their children in the fire as offerings to Baal--something I did not command or mention, nor did it enter my mind.