Ezekiel 16:20 Cross References
Ezekiel 16:20
20: "Then you took your sons and daughters--the children you had borne to me--and sacrificed them to your gods. Was it not enough that you should be a prostitute?
Ezekiel 23:37
- They have committed both adultery and murder--adultery by worshiping idols and murder by burning their children as sacrifices on their altars.
Psalms 106:37
- They even sacrificed their sons and their daughters to the demons.
- They shed innocent blood, the blood of their sons and daughters. By sacrificing them to the idols of Canaan, they polluted the land with murder.
Jeremiah 7:31
- They have built the pagan shrines of Topheth in the valley of the son of Hinnom, where they sacrifice their little sons and daughters in the fire. I have never commanded such a horrible deed; it never even crossed my mind to command such a thing!
Ezekiel 20:31
- For when you offer gifts to them and give your little children to be burned as sacrifices, you continue to pollute yourselves to this day. Should I listen to you or help you, O people of Israel? As surely as I live, says the Sovereign LORD, I will not give you a message even though you have come to me requesting one.
Exodus 13:2
- "Dedicate to me all the firstborn sons of Israel and every firstborn male animal. They are mine."
Ezekiel 16:21
- Must you also slaughter my children by sacrificing them to idols?
Exodus 13:12
- All firstborn sons and firstborn male animals must be presented to the LORD.
Deuteronomy 29:11
- With you are your little ones, your wives, and the foreigners living among you who chop your wood and carry your water.
- You are standing here today to enter into a covenant with the LORD your God. The LORD is making this covenant with you today, and he has sealed it with an oath.
Ezekiel 20:26
- I let them pollute themselves with the very gifts I had given them, and I allowed them to give their firstborn children as offerings to their gods--so I might devastate them and show them that I alone am the LORD.
Isaiah 57:5
- You worship your idols with great passion beneath every green tree. You slaughter your children as human sacrifices down in the valleys, under overhanging rocks.
Jeremiah 2:34
- Your clothing is stained with the blood of the innocent and the poor. You killed them even though they didn't break into your houses!
- And yet you say, `I haven't done anything wrong. Surely he isn't angry with me!' Now I will punish you severely because you claim you have not sinned.
Ezekiel 23:4
- The older girl was named Oholah, and her sister was Oholibah. I married them, and they bore me sons and daughters. I am speaking of Samaria and Jerusalem, for Oholah is Samaria and Oholibah is Jerusalem.
Genesis 17:7
- "I will continue this everlasting covenant between us, generation after generation. It will continue between me and your offspring forever. And I will always be your God and the God of your descendants after you.
Ezekiel 23:39
- On the very day that they murdered their children in front of their idols, they boldly came into my Temple to worship! They came in and defiled my house!
2 Kings 16:3
- Instead, he followed the example of the kings of Israel, even sacrificing his own son in the fire. He imitated the detestable practices of the pagan nations the LORD had driven from the land ahead of the Israelites.
Jeremiah 32:35
- They have built pagan shrines to Baal in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and there they sacrifice their sons and daughters to Molech. I have never commanded such a horrible deed; it never even crossed my mind to command such a thing. What an incredible evil, causing Judah to sin so greatly!
2 Chronicles 33:6
- Manasseh even sacrificed his own sons in the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom. He practiced sorcery, divination, and witchcraft, and he consulted with mediums and psychics. He did much that was evil in the LORD's sight, arousing his anger.
Ezekiel 8:17
- "Have you seen this, son of man?" he asked. "Is it nothing to the people of Judah that they commit these terrible sins, leading the whole nation into violence, thumbing their noses at me, and rousing my fury against them?
Micah 6:7
- Should we offer him thousands of rams and tens of thousands of rivers of olive oil? Would that please the LORD? Should we sacrifice our firstborn children to pay for the sins of our souls? Would that make him glad?