Key Verse Spotlight
Ezekiel 16:21 — Meaning and Application
King James Version
“That thou hast slain my children, and delivered them to cause them to pass through {the fire} for them?”
Ezekiel 16:21
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
My meat also which I gave thee, fine flour, and oil, and honey, {wherewith} I fed thee, thou hast even set it before them for a sweet savour: and {thus} it was, saith the Lord GOD. {a sweet...: Heb. a savour of rest}
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, {to be...: Heb. to devour}
That thou hast slain my children, and delivered them to cause them to pass through {the fire} for them?
And in all thine abominations and thy whoredoms thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, when thou wast naked and bare, {and} wast polluted in thy blood.
And it came to pass after all thy wickedness, (woe, woe unto thee! saith the Lord GOD;)
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