KJVThat thou hast slain my children, and delivered them to cause them to pass through the fire for them?
that thou hast slain my children, and delivered them up, in causing them to pass through the fire unto them?
You slaughtered My children and delivered them up through the fire to idols.
That thou dost slaughter My sons, And dost give them up in causing them to pass over to them?
that thou didst slay my children and give them up in passing them over to them?
Ezekiel — Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament).
The allegory which runs through this chapter is by no means an unusual one in the Prophets. The beginning of Ezekiel 16:3 has occasioned some variety of remark. OEcolampadius takes mkvrh, mekoreh, meaning "birth," "origin," for mgvrh, megoreh, meaning "dwelling;" as Calvin translates it habitationes. Houbigant derives it from krh,…