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Ezekiel 23:37

For 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.

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ASV

For they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands; and with their idols have they committed adultery; and they have also caused their sons, whom they bare unto me, to pass through the fire unto them to be devoured.

KJV

That they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands, and with their idols have they committed adultery, and have also caused their sons, whom they bare unto me, to pass for them through the fire, to devour them.

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16 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
כִּ֣יkiforH3588 →
נִאֵ֗פוּni.'E.futhey have committed adulteryH5003 →
וְדָם֙ve.Damand bloodH1818 →
בִּֽידֵיהֶ֔ןbi.dei.Hen[is] on hands theirH3027 →
וְאֶת־ve.'Etand withH854 →
גִּלּֽוּלֵיהֶ֖ןgi.lu.lei.Henidols theirH1544 →
נִאֵ֑פוּni.'E.futhey have committed adulteryH5003 →
וְגַ֤םve.Gamand alsoH1571 →
אֶת־'et-<obj.>H853 →
בְּנֵיהֶן֙be.nei.Henchildren theirH1121 →
אֲשֶׁ֣ר'a.SherwhomH834 →
יָֽלְדוּ־yal.du-they boreH3205 →
לִ֔יLito me
הֶעֱבִ֥ירוּhe.'e.Vi.ruthey made pass throughH5674 →
לָהֶ֖םla.Hemto them
לְאָכְלָֽה׃le.'okh.Lahto foodH402 →

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Ezekiel 16:36This is what the Lord GOD says: Because you poured out your wealth and exposed your nakedness in your promiscuity with your lovers and with all your detestable idols, and because of the blood of your children which you gave to them,Ezekiel 16:20You even took the sons and daughters you bore to Me and sacrificed them as food to idols. Was your prostitution not enough?Jeremiah 7:10and then come and stand before Me in this house, which bears My Name, and say, ‘We are delivered, so we can continue with all these abominations’?Psalms 106:37They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons.Ezekiel 16:38And I will sentence you to the punishment of women who commit adultery and those who shed blood; so I will bring upon you the wrath of your bloodshed and jealousy.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 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.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 16:20–21You even took the sons and daughters you bore to Me and sacrificed them as food to idols. Was your prostitution not enough?Micah 3:10who build Zion with bloodshed and Jerusalem with iniquity.Ezekiel 16:32You adulterous wife! You receive strangers instead of your own husband!Deuteronomy 12:31You must not worship the LORD your God in this way, because they practice for their gods every abomination which the LORD hates. They even burn their sons and daughters in the fire as sacrifices to their gods.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.Ezekiel 22:2–4“As for you, son of man, will you judge her? Will you pass judgment on the city of bloodshed? Then confront her with all her abominationsLuke 13:34O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling!Isaiah 1:15When you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide My eyes from you; even though you multiply your prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are covered with blood.Ezekiel 16:45You are the daughter of your mother, who despised her husband and children. You are the sister of your sisters, who despised their husbands and children. Your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite.Jeremiah 7:9Will you steal and murder, commit adultery and perjury, burn incense to Baal, and follow other gods that you have not known,

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