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 torture. The word is used Isaiah 57:5 Hosea 5:2. My children; sons here are first-born, which peculiarly were devoted to God, he reserved a special right in these, and yet this cruel mother, this perfidious wife, this sacrilegious adulteress, sacrificeth these to her idols. Delivered them; either gave them to the idol's priests, or rather with her own hands gave them, i.e. led them through the fire, if lustrated, or put them into the idol's arms of brass or iron, which grasped them fast whilst they were consumed with fire that made the idol red hot. For them; for the idol's worship, or possibly for the parents, who did wickedly imagine this a way to preserve and prosper the rest of their children.
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Ezekiel 16:21
21 That thou hast slain my children, and delivered them to cause them to pass through the fire for them?