Ezekiel 23:37 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

adultery. Put (like whoredom) for all idolatry, as being unfaithfulness to Jehovah. See note on Ezekiel 16:15.

caused. set apart.

to pass, &c. Reference to Pentateuch (Leviticus 18:21; Leviticus 20:2-4),

them. "Them" is masculine, and refers to the idols, in the first clause; and so, many codices, with six earlypriated editions (one Rabbinic). But some codices read feminine. themselves.

Ezekiel 23:37

37 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.