Discovery BoxEzekiel 16:19-20 
Context16:19 As for my food that I gave you – the fine flour, olive oil, and honey I fed you – you placed it before them as a soothing aroma. That is exactly what happened, declares the sovereign Lord.
16:20 “‘You took your sons and your daughters whom you bore to me and you sacrificed them 1 as food for the idols to eat. As if your prostitution not enough,
Ezekiel 16:49
Context16:49 “‘See here – this was the iniquity 2 of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters had majesty, abundance of food, and enjoyed carefree ease, but they did not help 3 the poor and needy.
Ezekiel 23:37
Context23:37 For they have committed adultery and blood is on their hands. They have committed adultery with their idols, and their sons, whom they bore to me, 4 they have passed through the fire as food to their idols. 5
Ezekiel 24:17
Context24:17 Groan in silence for the dead, 6 but do not perform mourning rites. 7 Bind on your turban 8 and put your sandals on your feet. Do not cover your lip 9 and do not eat food brought by others.” 10
Ezekiel 35:12
Context35:12 Then you will know that I, the Lord, have heard all the insults you spoke against the mountains of Israel, saying, “They are desolate, they have been given to us for food.”
Ezekiel 39:4
Context39:4 You will fall dead on the mountains of Israel, you and all your troops and the people who are with you. I give you as food to every kind of bird and every wild beast.
Ezekiel 44:7
Context44:7 When you bring foreigners, those uncircumcised in heart and in flesh, into my sanctuary, you desecrate 11 it – even my house – when you offer my food, the fat and the blood. You 12 have broken my covenant by all your abominable practices.
1 sn The sacrifice of children was prohibited in Lev 18:21; 20:2; Deut 12:31; 18:10.
2 tn Or “guilt.”
3 tn Heb “strengthen the hand of.”
4 sn The Lord speaks here in the role of the husband of the sisters.
5 tn Heb “they have passed to them for food.” The verb is commonly taken to refer to passing children through fire, especially as an offering to the pagan god Molech. See Jer 32:35.
6 tn Or “Groan silently. As to the dead….” Cf. M. Greenberg’s suggestion that דֹּם מֵתִים (dom metim) be taken together and דֹּם be derived from ָדּמַם (damam, “to moan, murmur”). See M. Greenberg, Ezekiel (AB), 2:508.
7 tn Heb “(For) the dead mourning you shall not conduct.” In the Hebrew text the word translated “dead” is plural, indicating that mourning rites are in view. Such rites would involve outward demonstrations of one’s sorrow, including wailing and weeping.
8 sn The turban would normally be removed for mourning (Josh 7:6; 1 Sam 4:12).
9 sn Mourning rites included covering the lower part of the face. See Lev 13:45.
10 tn Heb “the bread of men.” The translation follows the suggestion accepted by M. Greenberg (Ezekiel [AB], 2:509) that this refers to a meal brought by comforters to the one mourning. Some repoint the consonantal text to read “the bread of despair” (see L. C. Allen, Ezekiel [WBC], 2:56), while others, with support from the Targum and Vulgate, emend the consonantal text to read “the bread of mourners” (see D. I. Block, Ezekiel [NICOT], 1:784).
11 tn Heb “to desecrate.”
12 tc The Greek, Syriac, and Latin versions read “you.” The Masoretic text reads “they.”
