Ezekiel 16:21

21 You slaughtered my sons and placed them in the fire for them!

Ezekiel 16:21 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 16:21

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.

Ezekiel 16:21 In-Context

19 You set my food that I had given you to eat—fine wheat, oil, and honey—before them as a pleasing aroma. This is what the LORD God says.

20 You took your sons and daughters, which you had borne to me, and you sacrificed these to them so they could consume them. Was this promiscuity of yours a small thing?

21 You slaughtered my sons and placed them in the fire for them!

22 In all your detestable practices and promiscuities, you didn't remember the days of your infancy when you lay completely naked, flailing about in your blood.

23 After all your wickedness—doom, doom to you, proclaims the LORD God—