Ezekiel 16:21 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ That thou hast slain my children, and delivered them to cause them to pass through the fire for them? ”

• Ezekiel 16:21 - Albert 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, f...

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• Ezekiel 16:21 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  slain My children . See note on Ezekiel 16:20 , above. Reference to Pentateuch ( Leviticus 18:21 ). App-92. children . sons.

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• Ezekiel 16:21 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  He strengthens the same sentence, and more clearly explains that they offered their sons and daughters by cruelly sacrificing them when they passed them through the fire. This was a kind of pur...

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• Ezekiel 16:21 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  That thou hast slain my children, and delivered them to cause them to pass through the fire for them? To cause them to pass through the fire - Bp. Newcome quotes a very apposite passage from Dionys...

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• Ezekiel 16:21 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  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, Thy sons a...

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• Ezekiel 16:21 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Ritual of the Day of Atonement (See also Leviticus 23:26-32 ; Numbers 29:7-11 ; Exodus 30:10 .) This solemn ceremonial took place once a year on the tenth day of the seventh month ( Tishri =...

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• Ezekiel 16:21 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  JERUSALEM-AN IDEAL HISTORY Ezekiel 16:1-63 IN order to understand the place which the sixteenth chapter occupies in this section of the book, we must remember that a chief source of the antagon...

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• Ezekiel 16:21 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  The second figure was that of the adulteress, and this the prophet wrought out at great length. Jerusalem was arraigned on account of her abominations, which were described under the figure of that s...

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• Ezekiel 16:21 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  We have here, under the same figure, carried on, of the sad departures which, even after grace, is too often discoverable in the Church. Israel, of old, to whom the Prophet is speaking, was remarkabl...

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• Ezekiel 16:21 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  That thou hast slain my children ,.... By creation, as all born into the world are; and by national adoption, as all the Jewish children were; and particularly the firstborn were eminently his, and...

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• Ezekiel 16:21 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  That thou hast slain my children, and delivered them to cause them to pass through [the fire] for them? Ver. 21. That thou hast slain my children. ] Note that he yet calleth them his children, t...

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• Ezekiel 16:21 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Thou hast taken thy sons, &c., whom thou hast borne unto me Being married to me by a spiritual contract, Ezekiel 16:8 . The children, with whom I blessed thee, were mine, being entered into co...

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• Ezekiel 16:21 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Ingratitude of Israel; Shameful Idolatry of Israel. B. C. 593.       15 But thou didst trust...

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• Ezekiel 16:21 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Thy blind superstition called this religion, and accounted it sacrifice, but truth is it was unnatural murder; it is as if thou hadst cut their throat, nay, worse, because it put them to greater tort...

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• Ezekiel 16:21 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  “Moreover you have taken your sons and your daughters, whom you have borne to me, and these you have sacrificed to them to be devoured. Were your whoredoms a small matter that you have slain my child...

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• Ezekiel 16:21 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  ISRAEL’S APOSTACY FROM GOD ( Ezekiel 16:15-34 ) EXEGETICAL NOTES. Its origin and nature ( Ezekiel 16:15-22 ); its magnitude and extent ( Ezekiel 16:23-34 ). Ezekiel 16:15 . The apostacy of Israel...

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• Ezekiel 16:21 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  In this very remarkable chapter, God describes his ancient people Israel under the figure of an infant which had been cast away, but which he had cared for and tended, and upon which he had lavished...

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• Ezekiel 16:21 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Ezekiel 16:3 . Thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother a Hittite, a Chittith, a family of immodesty. The Israelites gloried in their descent from the holy patriarchs, heirs of the promises; but...

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• Ezekiel 16:21 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Thou hast also taken thy fair Jewels of My gold. The degrading nature of sin Manton says, “If you saw a man labouring in filthy ditches, and soiling himself as poor men do, would you believe th...

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• Ezekiel 16:21 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION The section on which we now enter, with its companion picture in Ezekiel 23:1-26 ; forms the most terrible, one might almost say the most repellent, part of Ezekiel's prophetic utter...

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• Ezekiel 16:21 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Horrible Unfaithfulness of the Lord's People

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• Ezekiel 16:21 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Ezekiel 16:3-7 ; Ezekiel 16:43 ; Ezekiel 16:60-63 ; Hosea 11:1 ; Hosea 2:3 ; Jeremiah 2:2

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• Ezekiel 16:21 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  For them — For the idols.

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