Ezekiel 20:31 meaning and explanation

When you offer your gifts, sacrificing your sons in the fire, you continue to defile yourselves with all your idols to this day. So should I be consulted by you, O house of Israel? As surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I will not be consulted by you!

Ezekiel 20:31, Berean Standard Bible

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The elders of Israel have come to Ezekiel to inquire of the LORD, and God answers by recounting Israel's long history of rebellion, from Egypt to the wilderness to the promised land. Here God names the worst of it: the practice of sacrificing children in fire to idols, which the law condemned.

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