Ezekiel 16:21

21 You slaughtered my children and sacrificed them to the idols.

Ezekiel 16:21 in Other Translations

21 That thou hast slain my children, and delivered them to cause them to pass through the fire for them?

21 that you slaughtered my children and delivered them up as an offering by fire to them?

21 Must you also slaughter my children by sacrificing them to idols?

21 And now you're a murderer, killing my children and sacrificing them to idols.

21 that thou hast slain my children, and delivered them up, in causing them to pass through [the fire] unto them?

21 You slaughtered my children and presented them as burnt offerings to idols.

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

21 You killed my children. You sacrificed them to other gods.

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 Also the food I provided for you—the flour, olive oil and honey I gave you to eat—you offered as fragrant incense before them. That is what happened, declares the Sovereign LORD.

20 “ ‘And you took your sons and daughters whom you bore to me and sacrificed them as food to the idols. Was your prostitution not enough?

21 You slaughtered my children and sacrificed them to the idols.

22 In all your detestable practices and your prostitution you did not remember the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, kicking about in your blood.

23 “ ‘Woe! Woe to you, declares the Sovereign LORD. In addition to all your other wickedness,

Cross References

• 1. S 2 Kings 17:17; S Jeremiah 19:5