For they have committed adultery, and blood is on their hands. They have committed adultery with their idols. They have even sacrificed their children, whom they bore to Me, in the fire as food for their idols.
Jerusalem pleads innocence, I am not polluted, but the facts convict her utterly. She revoked her oath to her sovereign Lord, kept league with His enemies, and trampled His crown. Now those very lovers she courted will execute her sentence; sinful affection breeds hatred swift as Amnon's did toward Tamar. The passionate fool swings from extreme to extreme.
AI summary
Commenting on Ezekiel 23:22-49
Adultery here means idolatry, and blood on their hands means the blood of prophets and innocents shed by their own wickedness. They worshipped idols as spiritual adultery, and worse still, they offered their own children to Molech and Baal, burning them alive in the fire, not for lustration but for destruction.
AI summary
That they have committed adultery, and blood [is] in their hands, and with their idols have they committed adultery, and have also caused their sons, whom they bore to me, to pass for them through [the fire], to devour [them]. (o) That is, to be sacrifices to their idols, read .