King James Version
Ezekiel 16:21 in the King James Version says “That thou hast slain my children, and delivered them to cause them to pass through the fire for them?” — study this verse from Ezekiel chapter 16 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“That thou hast slain my children, and delivered them to cause them to pass through the fire for them?”
Ezekiel 16:21 · KJV
My meat also which I gave thee, fine flour, and oil, and honey, wherewith I fed thee, thou hast even set it before them for a sweet savour: and thus it was, saith the Lord GOD. a sweet: Heb. a savour of rest
Moreover thou hast taken thy sons and thy daughters, whom thou hast borne unto me, and these hast thou sacrificed unto them to be devoured. Is this of thy whoredoms a small matter, to be: Heb. to devour
That thou hast slain my children, and delivered them to cause them to pass through the fire for them?
And in all thine abominations and thy whoredoms thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, when thou wast naked and bare, and wast polluted in thy blood.
And it came to pass after all thy wickedness, (woe, woe unto thee! saith the Lord GOD;)
KJV Study — Public Domain
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“my children”
H1121a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or
“and delivered”
H5414to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.)
“them to cause them to pass through”
H5674to cross over; used very widely of any transition (literal or figurative; transitive, intransitive, intensive, causative); specifically, to cover (in
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
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