Ezekiel 16:21

21 And you slaughtered my children, and you gave them {to be sacrificed to 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 And my bread that I gave to you, finely milled flour and oil and honey [with which] I fed you, then you set it {before them} as a {pleasing odor}, and so it was,' {declares} the Lord Yahweh.

20 'And you took your sons and your daughters whom you had borne for me, and you sacrificed them to them to be eaten, {as if your whorings were not enough}.

21 And you slaughtered my children, and you gave them {to be sacrificed to them}.

22 And [in] all of your detestable things and your fornication you did not remember the days of your childhood {when you were naked and bare}, [when] you were kicking about in your blood.

23 " 'And then after all of your evil! Woe, woe, to you!' {declares} the Lord Yahweh.

Footnotes

• [a]. Literally "to cause them to cross over to them"