Ezekiel 16:21
That thou hast slain my children, and delivered them to cause them to pass through the fire for them?
KJV
Immolasti filios meos, et dedisti, illos consecrans, eis.
Vulgate
καὶ ἔσφαξας τὰ τέκνα σου καὶ ἔδωκας αὐτὰ ἐν τῷ ἀποτροπιάζεσθαί σε αὐτὰ αὐτοῖς.
LXX
that thou hast slain my children, and delivered them up, in causing them to pass through the fire unto them?
ASV
וַֽ/תִּשְׁחֲטִ֖י אֶת בָּנָ֑/י וַֽ/תִּתְּנִ֔י/ם בְּ/הַעֲבִ֥יר אוֹתָ֖/ם לָ/הֶֽם
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
5 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
אֶת
't
pronoun · 10895×
בֶּן
bn
noun · 4909×
ם
m
verb · 1995×
ם
m
verb · 82×
עֹבֵ֣ר
'br
verb · 561×
Historic Christian voices
3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
2. Having finished therefore all the discourses concerning all these things, he next proceeds also to another accusation. And what was this? Their women used both to pray and prophesy unveiled and with their head bare, (for then women also used to prophesy;) but the men went so far as to wear long hair as having spent their time in philosophy , and covered their heads when pray…
Cross-references
- 2Kgs 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.
- Ezek 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,