Ezequiel 16:20

Almeida Revista e Atualizada

Demais, tomaste a teus filhos e tuas filhas, que me geraste, os sacrificaste a elas, para serem consumidos. Acaso, pequena a tua prostituio?

Parallel Translations

A Biblia Sagrada
Alm disto, tomaste a teus filhos e tuas filhas, que me tinhas gerado, e os sacrificaste a elas, para serem consumidos; acaso pequena a tua prostituio?

Almeida Revista e Corrigida
Alm disso, tomaste a teus filhos e tuas filhas, que por mim geraras, e os sacrificaste a elas, para serem consumidos; acaso, pequena a tua prostituio?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

thy sons: Ezekiel 16:21, Ezekiel 23:4, Genesis 17:7, Exodus 13:2, Exodus 13:12, Deuteronomy 29:11, Deuteronomy 29:12

and these: Ezekiel 20:26, Ezekiel 20:31, Ezekiel 23:37, Ezekiel 23:39, 2 Kings 16:3, 2 Chronicles 33:6, Psalms 106:37, Psalms 106:38, Isaiah 57:5, Jeremiah 7:31, Jeremiah 32:35, Micah 6:7

be devoured: Heb. devour

Is this: Ezekiel 8:17, Jeremiah 2:34, Jeremiah 2:35

Reciprocal: Leviticus 20:2 - giveth 1 Kings 16:31 - as if it had been a light thing 2 Kings 3:27 - offered him 2 Chronicles 28:3 - burnt Ecclesiastes 7:17 - not Isaiah 7:13 - Is it a small Jeremiah 19:5 - to burn Ezekiel 16:36 - and by Ezekiel 16:38 - shed Ezekiel 16:45 - that loatheth Ezekiel 23:20 - General Ezekiel 34:18 - a small Hosea 2:2 - let John 8:41 - we have

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Moreover thou hast taken thy sons and thy daughters,.... Their own flesh and blood; which were more than to take their clothes, and cover their idols with them, and their food, and set it before them to part with them was much, but to part with these, and that in such a shocking manner as after mentioned, was so irrational and unnatural, as well as impious and wicked, as is not to be paralleled; and what increased their wickedness was, that these were not only their own, but the Lord's:

whom thou hast borne unto me; for, though they were born of them, they were born unto the Lord, the Creator of them, the Father of their spirits, and God of their lives, and who had the sole right to dispose of them; nor was it in the power of their parents to take away their life at pleasure; for the Lord only has the sovereign power of life and death:

and these hast thou sacrificed unto them: the male images before mentioned; one of which was Molech, who is here particularly designed:

to be devoured; in the arms of that image; or to be consumed by fire, in which they were burnt, when sacrificed unto it. The Targum is,

"for oblation and worship;''

[is this] of thy whoredoms a small matter; which was so dreadfully heinous and inhuman, yet by some reckoned a small matter; this was not the least of their idolatries, but, of all, the most shocking, and the most aggravated: or the sense is, is it a small thing that thou shouldest play the harlot, or worship idols? is it not enough for thee to do so, but thou must sacrifice thy children also to them? and which are not only thine, but mine, as follows:

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Borne unto me - me is emphatic. The children of Yahweh have been devoted to Moloch. The rites of Moloch were twofold;

(1) The actual sacrifice of men and children as expiatory sacrifices to, false gods.

(2) The passing of them through the fire by way of purification and dedication.

Probably the first is alluded to in Ezekiel 16:20; the two rites together in Ezekiel 16:21.