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Ezekiel 16:20

You even took the sons and daughters you bore to Me and sacrificed them as food to idols. Was your prostitution not enough?

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ASV

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. Were thy whoredoms a small matter,

KJV

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,

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13 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
וַתִּקְחִ֞יva.tik.Chiand you tookH3947 →
אֶת־'et-<obj.>H853 →
בָּנַ֤יִךְba.Na.yikhsons yourH1121 →
וְאֶת־ve.'Etand <obj.>H853 →
בְּנוֹתַ֙יִךְ֙be.no.Ta.yikhdaughters yourH1323 →
אֲשֶׁ֣ר'a.SherwhomH834 →
יָלַ֣דְתְּya.Ladtyou had borneH3205 →
לִ֔יLito me
וַתִּזְבָּחִ֥יםva.tiz.ba.Chimand you sacrificed themH2076 →
לָהֶ֖םla.Hemto them
לֶאֱכ֑וֹלle.'e.Kholto devourH398 →
הַמְעַ֖טham.'At¿ littleH4592 →
מִתַּזְנוּתָֽיִךְ׃mi.taz.nu.tekhfrom prostitution<s> yourH8457 →

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Ezekiel 23:37For they have committed adultery, and blood is on their hands. They have committed adultery with their idols. They have even sacrificed their children, whom they bore to Me, in the fire as food for their idols.2 Kings 3:27So he took his firstborn son, who was to succeed him, and offered him as a burnt offering on the city wall. And there was great fury against the Israelites, so they withdrew and returned to their own land.Psalms 106:37–38They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons.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.Ezekiel 20:31When you offer your gifts, sacrificing your sons in the fire, you continue to defile yourselves with all your idols to this day. So should I be consulted by you, O house of Israel? As surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I will not be consulted by you!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.”Jeremiah 7:31They have built the high places of Topheth in the Valley of Hinnom so they could burn their sons and daughters in the fire—something I never commanded, nor did it even enter My mind.Ezekiel 23:39On the very day they slaughtered their children for their idols, they entered My sanctuary to profane it. Yes, they did this inside My house.Deuteronomy 29:11–12your children and wives, and the foreigners in your camps who cut your wood and draw your water—Ezekiel 16:21You slaughtered My children and delivered them up through the fire to idols.Exodus 13:12you are to present to the LORD the firstborn male of every womb. All the firstborn males of your livestock belong to the LORD.Isaiah 57:5who burn with lust among the oaks, under every luxuriant tree, who slaughter your children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks?Micah 6:7Would the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, with ten thousand rivers of oil? Shall I present my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?2 Chronicles 33:6He sacrificed his sons in the fire in the Valley of Hinnom. He practiced sorcery, divination, and witchcraft, and consulted mediums and spiritists. He did great evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking Him to anger.Genesis 17:7I will establish My covenant as an everlasting covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you.2 Kings 16:3Instead, he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel and even sacrificed his son in the fire, according to the abominations of the nations that the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.Jeremiah 32:35They have built the high places of Baal in the Valley of Hinnom to make their sons and daughters pass through the fire to Molech—something I never commanded them, nor had it ever entered My mind, that they should commit such an abomination and cause Judah to sin.Ezekiel 8:17“Son of man,” He said to me, “do you see this? Is it not enough for the house of Judah to commit the abominations they are practicing here, that they must also fill the land with violence and continually provoke Me to anger? Look, they are even putting the branch to their nose!

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The Prophet Ezekiel — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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