Ezekiel 16:21

Easy To Read Version

You slaughtered {\cf2\super [122]} my sons and then passed them \{through the fire\} to those false gods.

Cross References

2 Kings 17:17

They sacrificed their sons and daughters in the fire. They used magic and witchcraft [211] to try to learn the future. They sold themselves to do what the Lord said was evil. They did this to make the Lord angry.

2 Kings 21:6

Manasseh sacrificed his own son and burned him on the altar. [255] Manasseh used different ways of trying to know the future. He visited mediums [256] and wizards. [257]

2 Kings 23:10

Topheth was a place in the Valley of Hinnom’s Son where people killed their children and burned them on an altar to honor the false god Molech. [289] Josiah defiled (ruined) that place so people could not use that place again.

2 Chronicles 28:3

Ahaz burned incense {\cf2\super [318]} in the Valley of Ben Hinnom. {\cf2\super [319]} He sacrificed {\cf2\super [320]} his own sons by burning them in the fire. He did the same terrible sins that the peoples living in that land did. The Lord had forced those people out when the people of Israel entered that land.

Psalm 106:37

God’s people even killed their own children,\par and offered the children to those devils.\par

Exodus 13:2

“You must give me every male in Israel that is its mother's first child. That means that every firstborn baby {boy} and every firstborn {male} animal will be mine.”

Jeremiah 19:5

The kings of Judah built high places {\cf2\super [158]} for the god Baal. {\cf2\super [159]} They use those places to burn their sons in the fire. They burned their sons as burnt offerings to the god Baal. I did not tell them to do that. I did not ask you to offer your sons as sacrifices. I never even thought of such a thing.

Ezekiel 20:26

I let them make themselves filthy with their gifts. They even began to sacrifice their own firstborn children. In this way, I would destroy those people. Then they would know that I am the Lord.’

Leviticus 18:21

“You must not give any of your children through {the fire} to Molech. [329] If you do this, you will show that you don’t respect the name of your God! I am the Lord.

Deuteronomy 18:10

Don’t sacrifice your sons or daughters in the fires on your altars. [117] Don’t try to learn what will happen in the future by talking to a fortune teller or by going to a magician, a witch or a sorcerer.