Ezekiel 20:26
Translations
King James Version (KJV)
And I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused to pass through the fire all that opens the womb, that I might make them desolate, to the end that they might know that I am the LORD.
American King James Version (AKJV)
And I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused to pass through the fire all that opens the womb, that I might make them desolate, to the end that they might know that I am the LORD.
American Standard Version (ASV)
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 desolate, to the end that they might know that I am Jehovah.
Basic English Translation (BBE)
I made them unclean in the offerings they gave, causing them to make every first child go through the fire, so that I might put an end to them.
Webster's Revision
And I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused to pass through the fire all the first-born, that I might make them desolate, to the end that they might know that I am the LORD.
World English Bible
and I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused to pass through [the fire] all that opens the womb, that I might make them desolate, to the end that they might know that I am Yahweh.
English Revised Version (ERV)
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 desolate, to the end that they might know that I am the LORD.
Clarke's Ezekiel 20:26 Bible Commentary
I polluted them in their own gifts - I permitted them to pollute themselves by the offerings which they made to their idols. Causing their children to pass through the fire was one of those pollutions; but, did God ever give them a statute or judgment of this kind? No. He ever inveighs against such things, and they incur his heaviest displeasure and curse. See on Ezekiel 20:31 (note).
Barnes's Ezekiel 20:26 Bible Commentary
To pass through - The word also means to "set apart," as the firstborn to the Lord Exodus 13:12. They were bidden to "set apart" their firstborn males to the Lord. They "caused them to pass through the fire" to Moloch. An instance of their perversion of God's laws.
Wesley's Ezekiel 20:26 Bible Commentary
20:26 Polluted - I permitted them to pollute themselves.Might know - Be forced to own, that the Lord is a mighty king in punishing those that would not have him a gracious king in governing them.