Yehezkiel 16:19-20

16:19 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,

Yehezkiel 18:6

18:6 does not eat pagan sacrifices on the mountains ²  or pray to the idols ³  of the house of Israel, does not defile his neighbor’s wife, does not have sexual relations with a ⁴  woman during her period,

Yehezkiel 20:26

20:26 I declared them to be defiled because of their sacrifices ⁵  – they caused all their first born to pass through the fire ⁶  – so that I would devastate them, so that they will know that I am the Lord.’ ⁷ 

Yehezkiel 23:37

23:37 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, ⁸  they have passed through the fire as food to their idols. ⁹ 

Yehezkiel 43:22

43:22 “On the second day, you will offer a male goat without blemish for a sin offering. They will purify the altar just as they purified it with the bull.

Yehezkiel 44:27

44:27 On the day he enters the sanctuary, into the inner court to serve in the sanctuary, he must offer his sin offering, declares the sovereign Lord.

Yehezkiel 44:29

44:29 They may eat the grain offering, the sin offering, and the guilt offering, and every devoted thing in Israel will be theirs.

Yehezkiel 45:24

45:24 He will provide as a grain offering an ephah for each bull, an ephah for each ram, and a gallon ¹⁰  of olive oil for each ephah of grain. ¹¹ 

Yehezkiel 46:4

46:4 The burnt offering which the prince will offer to the Lord on the Sabbath day will be six unblemished lambs and one unblemished ram.

[16:20]  ¹ sn The sacrifice of children was prohibited in Lev 18:21; 20:2; Deut 12:31; 18:10.

[18:6]  ² tn Heb, “on the mountains he does not eat.” The mountains are often mentioned as the place where idolatrous sacrifices were eaten (Ezek 20:28; 22:9; 34:6).

[18:6]  ³ tn Heb, “does not lift up his eyes.” This refers to looking to idols for help.

[18:6]  ⁴ tn Heb, “does not draw near to.” “Draw near” is a euphemism for sexual intercourse (Lev 18:14; Deut 22:14; Isa 8:3).

[20:26]  ⁵ tn Or “gifts.”

[20:26]  ⁶ sn This act is prohibited in Deut 12:29-31 and Jer 7:31; 19:5; 32:35. See also 2 Kgs 21:6; 23:10. This custom indicates that the laws the Israelites were following were the disastrous laws of pagan nations (see Ezek 16:20-21).

[20:26]  ⁷ sn God sometimes punishes sin by inciting the sinner to sin even more, as the biblical examples of divine hardening and deceit make clear. See Robert B. Chisholm, Jr., “Divine Hardening in the Old Testament,” BSac 153 (1996): 410-34; idem, “Does God Deceive?” BSac 155 (1998): 11-28. For other instances where the Lord causes individuals to act unwisely or even sinfully as punishment for sin, see 1 Sam 2:25; 2 Sam 17:14; 1 Kgs 12:15; 2 Chr 25:20.

[23:37]  ⁸ sn The Lord speaks here in the role of the husband of the sisters.

[23:37]  ⁹ 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.

[45:24]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “a hin of oil.” A hin was about 1/16 of a bath. See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:266, and O. R. Sellers, “Weights,” IDB 4:835 g.

[45:24]  ¹¹ tn Heb “ephah.” The words “of grain” are supplied in the translation as a clarification.