Ezekiel 16:21
New International Version
You slaughtered my children and sacrificed them to the idols.

New Living Translation
Must you also slaughter my children by sacrificing them to idols?

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

Berean Standard Bible
You slaughtered My children and delivered them up through the fire to idols.

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

New King James Version
that you have slain My children and offered them up to them by causing them to pass through the fire?

New American Standard Bible
You slaughtered My children and offered them to idols by making them pass through the fire.

NASB 1995
“You slaughtered My children and offered them up to idols by causing them to pass through the fire.

NASB 1977
“You slaughtered My children, and offered them up to idols by causing them to pass through the fire.

Legacy Standard Bible
You slaughtered My children and gave them up to idols by causing them to pass through the fire.

Amplified Bible
You slaughtered My children and offered them up to [worthless] idols, forcing them to pass through the [hideousness of the] fire.

Christian Standard Bible
You slaughtered my children and gave them up when you passed them through the fire to the images.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
You slaughtered My children and gave them up when you passed them through the fire to the images.

American Standard Version
that thou hast slain my children, and delivered them up, in causing them to pass through the fire unto them?

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And you slaughtered my children and you offered them up, after you had ravished them

Brenton Septuagint Translation
and didst slay thy children, and gavest them up in offering them to them for an expiation.

Contemporary English Version
You slaughtered my children, so you could offer them as sacrifices.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou hast sacrificed and given my children to them, consecrating them by fire.

English Revised Version
that thou hast slain my children, and delivered them up, in causing them to pass through the fire unto them?

GOD'S WORD® Translation
You slaughtered my children and presented them as burnt offerings to idols.

Good News Translation
without taking my children and sacrificing them to idols?

International Standard Version
you also slaughtered my sons and offered them to idols, incinerating them in fire.

JPS Tanakh 1917
that thou hast slain My children, and delivered them up, in setting them apart unto them?

Literal Standard Version
that you slaughter My sons, | And give them up in causing them to pass over to them?

Majority Standard Bible
You slaughtered My children and delivered them up through the fire to idols.

New American Bible
You slaughtered and immolated my children to them, making them pass through fire.

NET Bible
you slaughtered my children and sacrificed them to the idols.

New Revised Standard Version
You slaughtered my children and delivered them up as an offering to them.

New Heart English Bible
that you have slain my children, and delivered them up, in causing them to pass through the fire to them?

Webster's Bible Translation
That thou hast slain my children, and delivered them to cause them to pass through the fire for them?

World English Bible
that you have slain my children and delivered them up, in causing them to pass through the fire to them?

Young's Literal Translation
That thou dost slaughter My sons, And dost give them up in causing them to pass over to them?

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Context
Jerusalem's Unfaithfulness
20You even took the sons and daughters you bore to Me and sacrificed them as food to idols. Was your prostitution not enough? 21You slaughtered My children and delivered them up through the fire to idols. 22And in all your abominations and acts of prostitution, you did not remember the days of your youth when you were naked and bare, wallowing in your own blood.…

Cross References
Exodus 13:2
"Consecrate to Me every firstborn male. The firstborn from every womb among the Israelites belongs to Me, both of man and beast."

2 Kings 17:17
They sacrificed their sons and daughters in the fire and practiced divination and soothsaying. They devoted themselves to doing evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking Him to anger.

Psalm 106:37
They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons.

Jeremiah 19:5
They have built high places to Baal on which to burn their children in the fire as offerings to Baal--something I never commanded or mentioned, nor did it even enter My mind.


Treasury of Scripture

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

my children

Psalm 106:37
Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils,

to pass

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.

Leviticus 20:1-5
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, …

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,

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Ezekiel 16
1. Under the parable of a wretched infant is shown the natural state of Jerusalem
6. God's extraordinary love toward her,
15. Her grievous judgment
35. Her sin, equal to her mother,
46. and exceeding her sisters, Sodom and Samaria,
59. calls for judgments
60. Mercy is promised her in the end
















Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
You slaughtered
וַֽתִּשְׁחֲטִ֖י (wat·tiš·ḥă·ṭî)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - second person feminine singular
Strong's 7819: To slaughter, beat

My children
בָּנָ֑י (bā·nāy)
Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common singular
Strong's 1121: A son

and delivered them up
וַֽתִּתְּנִ֔ים (wat·tit·tə·nîm)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - second person feminine singular | third person masculine plural
Strong's 5414: To give, put, set

through the fire to idols.
בְּהַעֲבִ֥יר (bə·ha·‘ă·ḇîr)
Preposition-b | Verb - Hifil - Infinitive construct
Strong's 5674: To pass over, through, or by, pass on


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