Ezekiel 16:20

18 You took your embroidered garments and covered them, and you set My oil and My incense before them.

19 Also ^aMy food which I gave you—the pastry of fine flour, oil, and honey which I fed you—you set it before them as¹ sweet incense; and so it was,” says the Lord God.

20 ^a“Moreover you took your sons and your daughters, whom you bore to Me, and these you sacrificed to them to be devoured. Were your acts of harlotry a small matter,

21 that you have slain My children and offered them up to them by causing them to pass through the ^afire?

22 And in all your abominations and acts of harlotry you did not remember the days of your ^ayouth, ^bwhen you were naked and bare, struggling in your blood.

23 “Then it was so, after all your wickedness—‘Woe, woe to you!’ says the Lord God—

24 that ^ayou also built for yourself a shrine, and ^bmade a high place for yourself in every street.

Commentaries:

Barnes' Notes

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Ezekiel 16:20-21

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.

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