Ezekiel 16:21

21 You slaughtered My children and gave them up when you passed them through [the fire]^[a] to the images.

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 also set before them as a pleasing aroma the food I gave you-the fine flour, oil, and honey that I fed you. That is what happened." [This is] the declaration of the Lord God .

20 "You even took your sons and daughters you bore to Me and sacrificed them to these images as food. Wasn't your prostitution enough?

21 You slaughtered My children and gave them up when you passed them through [the fire] to the images.

22 In all your abominations and acts of prostitution, you did not remember the days of your youth when you were stark naked and lying in your blood.

23 "Then after all your evil-Woe, woe to you!"-the declaration of the Lord God -

Footnotes

• [a] 2 Kg 16:3