Ezekiel 23:37 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³⁷ For they have committed adultery, and blood is on their hands; with their idols they have committed adultery, and they have even offered up to them for food the children whom they had borne to me.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³⁷ For they have committed adultery and blood is on their hands, even with their idols have they committed adultery [against Me]. And they have also caused their sons, whom they bore to Me, to pass through the fire to their images [as an offering of food] to be devoured [by them].

American Standard Version (1901)

³⁷ For they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands; and with their idols have they committed adultery; and they have also caused their sons, whom they bare unto me, to pass through the fire unto them to be devoured.

Common English Bible

³⁷ They committed adultery, so now blood is on their hands. They committed adultery with their idols, and they even took their children whom they had borne to me and offered them up to be consumed for them.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁷ For they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands, and they have fornicated with their idols. Moreover, they have offered even their children, whom they bore for me, to them to be devoured.

Ezekiel 23:37 Cross References

2 Kings 17:17

They made their sons and their daughters pass through fire, used divination and augury, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger.

2 Kings 21:6

He made his son pass through fire; he practiced soothsaying and augury and dealt with mediums and with wizards. He did much evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger.

2 Kings 23:10

He defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of Ben-hinnom, so that no one would make a son or a daughter pass through fire as an offering to Molech.

2 Kings 24:4

and also for the innocent blood that he had shed, for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the Lord was not willing to pardon.

Isaiah 1:15

When you stretch out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you; even though you make many prayers, I will not listen; your hands are full of blood.

Jeremiah 32:35

They built the high places of Baal in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to offer up their sons and daughters to Molech, though I did not command them, nor did it enter my mind that they should do this abomination, causing Judah to sin.

Jeremiah 7:31

And they go on building the high place of Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire—which I did not command, nor did it come into my mind.

Jeremiah 7:6

if you do not oppress the alien, the orphan, and the widow or shed innocent blood in this place, and if you do not go after other gods to your own hurt,

Jeremiah 7:9

Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, make offerings to Baal, and go after other gods that you have not known

Ezekiel 16:32

Adulterous wife who receives strangers instead of her husband!

Ezekiel 16:36

Thus says the Lord God: Because your lust was poured out and your nakedness uncovered in your prostitution with your lovers, and because of all your abominable idols, and because of the blood of your children that you gave to them,

Ezekiel 16:38

I will judge you as women who commit adultery and shed blood are judged and bring blood upon you in wrath and jealousy.

Ezekiel 16:45

You are the daughter of your mother, who loathed her husband and her children, and you are the sister of your sisters, who loathed their husbands and their children. Your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite.

Ezekiel 20:26

I defiled them through their very gifts, in their offering up all their firstborn, in order that I might horrify them, so that they might know that I am the Lord.

Ezekiel 20:31

When you offer your gifts and make your children pass through the fire, you defile yourselves with all your idols to this day. And shall I be consulted by you, O house of Israel? As I live, says the Lord God, I will not be consulted by you.

Ezekiel 23:39

For when they had slaughtered their children for their idols, on the same day they came into my sanctuary to profane it. This is what they did in my house.

Ezekiel 23:45

But righteous judges shall declare them guilty of adultery and of bloodshed, because they are adulteresses, and blood is on their hands.

Hosea 1:2

When the Lord first spoke through Hosea, the Lord said to Hosea, “Go, take for yourself a wife of prostitution and have children of prostitution, for the land commits great prostitution by forsaking the Lord.”

Hosea 3:1

The Lord said to me again, “Go, love a woman who has a lover and is an adulteress, just as the Lord loves the people of Israel, though they turn to other gods and love raisin cakes.”

Hosea 4:2

Swearing, lying, and murder, and stealing and adultery break out; bloodshed follows bloodshed.

Leviticus 18:21

You shall not give any of your offspring to sacrifice them to Molech and so profane the name of your God: I am the Lord.

Micah 3:10

who build Zion with blood and Jerusalem with wrong!

Luke 13:34

Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often have I desired to gather your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing!

Deuteronomy 12:31

You must not do the same for the Lord your God, because every abhorrent thing that the Lord hates they have done for their gods. They would even burn their sons and their daughters in the fire to their gods.