Ezekiel 16:21
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“You slaughtered My children and delivered them up through the fire to idols.”
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“You slaughtered My children and delivered them up through the fire to idols.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“That thou hast slain my children, and delivered them to cause them to pass through the fire for them?”
King James Version · Public Domain“that thou hast slain my children, and delivered them up, in causing them to pass through the fire unto them?”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“That thou dost slaughter My sons, And dost give them up in causing them to pass over to them?”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Ezekiel 16:21 — 10 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Leviticus 18:21You must not give any of your children to be sacrificed to Molech, for you must not profane the name of your God. I am the LORD.
- Leviticus 20:1Then the LORD said to Moses,
- Deuteronomy 18:10Let no one be found among you who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire, practices divination or conjury, interprets omens, practices sorcery,
- 2 Kings 17:17They 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.
- 2 Kings 21:6He sacrificed his own son in the fire, practiced sorcery and divination, and consulted mediums and spiritists. He did great evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking Him to anger.
- 2 Kings 23:10He also desecrated Topheth in the Valley of Ben-hinnom so that no one could sacrifice his son or daughter in the fire to Molech.
- 2 Chronicles 28:3Moreover, Ahaz burned incense in the Valley of Hinnom and sacrificed his sons in the fire, according to the abominations of the nations that the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.
- Psalms 106:37They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons.
- Jeremiah 19:5They 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.
- Ezekiel 20:26And I pronounced them unclean through their gifts—the sacrifice of every firstborn in the fire—so that I might devastate them, in order that they would know that I am the LORD.
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