Ezekiel 16 · Verse 21

Ezekiel 16:21

That thou hast slain my children, and delivered them to cause them to pass through the fire for them?
Ezekiel 16:21, King James Version

Ezekiel 16:21 in other translations

BSBYou slaughtered My children and delivered them up through the fire to idols.
WEBthat you have slain my children and delivered them up, in causing them to pass through the fire to them?
ASVthat thou hast slain my children, and delivered them up, in causing them to pass through the fire unto them?
YLTThat thou dost slaughter My sons, And dost give them up in causing them to pass over to them?
DARBYthat thou didst slay my children and give them up in passing them over to them?
BBEThat you put my children to death and gave them up to go through the fire to them?
WebsterThat thou hast slain my children, and delivered them to cause them to pass through the fire for them?

What does Ezekiel 16:21 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Ezekiel 16:20-21

20-21. sons and ... daughters borne unto me--Though "thy children," yet they belong "unto Me," rather than to thee, for they were born under the immutable covenant with Israel, which even Israel's sin could not set aside, and they have received the sign of adoption as Mine, namely, circumcision. This aggravates the guilt of sacrificing them to Molech. to be devoured--not merely to pass through the fire, as sometimes…

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 21 To cause them to pass through the fire - Bp. Newcome quotes a very apposite passage from Dionysius Halicarnass. Ant. Romans lib. i., s. 88, p. 72, and marg. p. 75, Edit. Hudson: Μετα δε τουτο, πυρκαΐας προ των σκηνων γενεσθαι κελευσας, εξαγει τον λεων τας φλογας ὑπερθρωσκοντα,της ὁσιωσεως των μιασματων ἑνεκα. "And after this, having ordered that fires should be made before the tents, he brings out the people to leap over the flames, for the purifying of their pollutions." This example shows that we are not always to take passing through the fire for being entirely consumed by it. Among the Israelites this appears to have been used as a rite of consecration.

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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Ezekiel 16:1-58

A parable showing the first low estate of the Jewish nation, its prosperity, idolatries, and punishment. Verses 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…

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Ezekiel 16:21 in the original Hebrew

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וַֽתִּשְׁחֲטִ֖יva.tish.cha.Tiand you slaughteredH7819
אֶת\־'et-<obj.>H853
בָּנָ֑יba.Naichildren myH1121
וַֽתִּתְּנִ֔יםva.ti.te.Nimand you gave themH5414
בְּהַעֲבִ֥ירbe.ha.'a.Virwhen made pass throughH5674
אוֹתָ֖ם'o.Tam<obj.> themH853
לָהֶֽם\׃la.Hemto <the> them

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Ezekiel 16:21

  • 2 Kings 17:17

    And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to anger.

  • Deuteronomy 18:10

    There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch,

  • Leviticus 18:21

    And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through the fire to Molech, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the Lord.

  • Jeremiah 19:5

    They have built also the high places of Baal, to burn their sons with fire for burnt offerings unto Baal, which I commanded not, nor spake it, neither came it into my mind:

  • 2 Kings 21:6

    And he made his son pass through the fire, and observed times, and used enchantments, and dealt with familiar spirits and wizards: he wrought much wickedness in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to anger.

  • Psalms 106:37

    Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils,

  • 2 Kings 23:10

    And he defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the children of Hinnom, that no man might make his son or his daughter to pass through the fire to Molech.

  • Leviticus 20:1-5

    And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Again, thou shalt say to the children of Israel, Whosoever he be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, that giveth any of his seed unto Molech; he shall surely be put to death: the people of the land shall stone him with stones. And I will set my face against that man, and will cut him off from among his people; because he hath given of his seed unto Molech, to defile my sanctuary, and to profane my holy name. And if the people of the land do any ways hide their eyes from the man, when he giveth of his seed unto Molech, and kill him not: …

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my children.
Ps 106:37
to pass.
Le 18:21; 20:1-5; De 18:10; 2Ki 17:17; 21:6; 23:10

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Context

  • Ezekiel 16:20

    Moreover thou hast taken thy sons and thy daughters, whom thou hast borne unto me, and these hast thou sacrificed unto them to be devoured. Is this of thy whoredoms a small matter,

  • Ezekiel 16:21

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

  • Ezekiel 16:22

    And in all thine abominations and thy whoredoms thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, when thou wast naked and bare, and wast polluted in thy blood.

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Ezekiel 16:21 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Y sacrificaste mis hijos, y dístelos á ellas para que los hiciesen pasar por el fuego.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Tu égorgeas mes fils, et tu les livras, en les leur consacrant.
German
Elberfelder 1871
War es zu wenig an deiner Hurerei, daß du meine Kinder schlachtetest und sie hingabst, indem du sie ihnen durch das Feuer gehen ließest?
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Immolasti filios meos, et dedisti, illos consecrans, eis.