Ezekiel 15:4

15:4 No! ¹  It is thrown in the fire for fuel; when the fire has burned up both ends of it and it is charred in the middle, will it be useful for anything?

Ezekiel 21:32

21:32 You will become fuel for the fire –

your blood will stain the middle of the land; ² 

you will no longer be remembered,

for I, the Lord, have spoken.’”

Ezekiel 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, ³  they have passed through the fire as food to their idols. ⁴ 

Ezekiel 35:12

35:12 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

39:4 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.

[15:4]  ¹ tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) draws one’s attention to something. Sometimes it may be translated as a verb of perception; here it is treated as a particle that fits the context (so also in v. 5, but with a different English word).

[21:32]  ² tn Heb “your blood will be in the middle of the land.”

[23:37]  ³ sn The Lord speaks here in the role of the husband of the sisters.

[23:37]  ⁴ 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.