Ezekiel 20:31

For when ye offer your gifts, when ye make your sons to pass through the fire, ye pollute yourselves with all your idols, even unto this day: and shall I be enquired of by you, O house of Israel? As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will not be enquired of by you.

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Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
offer	וּבִשְׂאֵ֣ת u.vis.'Et	H5375	to lift · conjunction + preposition + verb, qal infinitive construct
gifts	מַתְּנֹֽתֵיכֶ֡ם ma.te.no.tei.Khem	H4979	a present · noun, common feminine plural construct + pronominal suffix, 2nd person masculine plural
sons	בְּנֵיכֶ֨ם be.nei.Khem	H1121	a son (as a builder of the family name) · noun, common masculine plural construct + pronominal suffix, 2nd person masculine plural
through	בְּֽהַעֲבִיר֩ be.ha.'a.Vir	H5674	to cross over · preposition + verb, hiphil infinitive construct
fire	בָּאֵ֜שׁ ba.'Esh	H784	fire (literally or figuratively) · preposition with the article + noun, common both genders singular absolute
pollute	נִטְמְאִ֤֨ים nit.me.'Im	H2930	to be foul · verb, niphal active participle, masculine plural absolute
idols	גִּלּֽוּלֵיכֶם֙ gi.lu.lei.Khem	H1544	properly · noun, common masculine plural construct + pronominal suffix, 2nd person masculine plural
day	הַיּ֔וֹם hai.Yom	H3117	a day (as the warm hours) · definite article + noun, common masculine singular absolute
enquired	אִדָּרֵ֥שׁ 'i.da.Resh	H1875	properly · verb, niphal imperfect, 1st person common singular
house	בֵּ֣ית beit	H1004	a house (in the greatest variation of applications · noun, common masculine singular construct
Israel	יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל Yis.ra.'El	H3478	Jisrael · proper noun, a place name
live	חַי chai-	H2416	alive · adjective, masculine singular absolute
saith	נְאֻם֙ ne.'Um	H5002	an oracle · noun, common masculine singular construct
Lord	אֲדֹנָ֣י 'a.do.Nai	H136	the Lord (used as a proper name of God only) · proper noun, a title
GOD	יְהוִ֔ה Yah.weh	H3069	YHWH · proper noun, a title
enquired	אִדָּרֵ֖שׁ 'i.da.Resh	H1875	properly · verb, niphal imperfect, 1st person common singular

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Cross-references

Psalms 106:37-39 Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils,
Jeremiah 7:31 And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fi…
Ezekiel 20:26 And I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused to pass through the fire all that openeth the womb, that I might make them desol…
Deuteronomy 18:10-12 There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an obs…
1 Samuel 28:5-6 And when Saul saw the host of the Philistines, he was afraid, and his heart greatly trembled.
2 Kings 3:13-14 And Elisha said unto the king of Israel, What have I to do with thee? get thee to the prophets of thy father, and to the prophets of thy mot…
Job 27:8 For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul?
Job 27:10 Will he delight himself in the Almighty? will he always call upon God?

Cross-references from OpenBible.info (CC BY), in the lineage of the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain).

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 20:27-32

Here the prophet goes on with the story of their rebellions, for their further humiliation, and shows, I. That they had persisted in them after they were settled in the land of Canaan. Though God had so many times testified his displeasure against their wicked courses, "yet in this (that is, in the very same thing) your fathers have blasphemed me, continued to affront me, that they also have trespassed a trespass against me," Eze 20:27. Note, It is a great aggravation of sin when men will not take warning by the mischievous consequences of sin in those that have gone before them: this is blaspheming God; it is speaking reproachfully of his judgments, as if they were of no significancy and we…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Ezekiel 20:31

through the fire--As "the fire" is omitted in Eze 20:26, FAIRBAIRN represents the generation here referred to (namely, that of Ezekiel's day) as attaining the climax of guilt (see on Eze 20:26), in making their children pass through the fire, which that former generation did not. The reason, however, for the omission of "the fire" in Eze 20:26 is, perhaps, that there it is implied the children only "passed through the fire" for purification, whereas here they are actually burnt to death before the idol; and therefore "the fire" is specified in the latter, not in the former case (compare Kg2 3:27).

Adam Clarke on Ezekiel 20:31

Ye pollute yourselves - This shows the sense in which God says, Eze 20:26, "I polluted them in their own gifts." They chose to pollute themselves, and I permitted them to do so. See on Eze 20:25 (note), Eze 20:26 (note).

John Gill on Ezekiel 20:31

For when ye offer your gifts,.... And sacrifices to idols. The Septuagint and Arabic versions render it, the firstfruits of your gifts; it may design their firstborn; see Ezekiel 20:26 as the following clause seems to explain it: when ye make your sons to pass through the fire; or between two fires to Moloch, as their fathers had done before them; ye pollute yourselves with all your idols, even unto this day; by worshipping idols, or dunghill gods, as the word signifies, as often observed; they defiled themselves with those filthy things, which they continued to do to that very day, and so became more and more polluted; and were as their fathers had been, and therefore must expect to be u…

Dictionary and topics

Blasphemy · Punishment of — Punishment of
Idolatry · .Human sacrifices — .Human sacrifices
Molech · Children sacrificed to — Children sacrificed to
Sacrifices · The Jews: Condemned for offering, to idols — The Jews: Condemned for offering, to idols

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Ezekiel 20:31

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 20:27-32

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Ezekiel 20:31

Adam Clarke on Ezekiel 20:31

John Gill on Ezekiel 20:31

Dictionary and topics

Ezekiel 20:31

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 20:27-32

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Ezekiel 20:31

Adam Clarke on Ezekiel 20:31

John Gill on Ezekiel 20:31

Dictionary and topics

John Calvin on Ezekiel 20:31

Keil & Delitzsch on Ezekiel 20:27-31

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Ezekiel 20:27-31

Rashi on Ezekiel 20:31