Thematic Bible: Human beings offered as
Thematic Bible
Sacrifices » Human beings offered as
Never give your children as sacrifices to the god Molech by burning them alive. If you do, you are dishonoring the name of your God. I am Jehovah!
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He took his oldest son, who was to succeed him as king, and offered him on the city wall as a sacrifice to the god of Moab. The Israelites were terrified and so they drew back from the city and returned to their own country.
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They shed innocent blood, the blood of their own sons and daughters whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan. The land became polluted with blood.
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Do not behave this way toward Jehovah your God, for every abominable act Jehovah hates they have done for their gods. They even burn their sons and daughters in the fire to their gods.
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They have built the high places of Baal to burn their sons in the fire as burnt offerings to Baal. This is not something I commanded or spoke of, nor did it ever enter my mind (heart) (conscience).'
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He burned sacrifices in the valley of Ben Hinnom. He sacrificed his son by burning him alive. This was one of the disgusting things done by the nations that Jehovah had driven out from the land Israel possessed.
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He walked in ways of the kings of Israel. He even offered his son to walk through the fire. He copied the disgusting ways of the nations. Jehovah sent the people of the nations out of the land before the children of Israel.
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Are you inflaming yourselves with gods under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks?
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You took your sons and daughters, who belonged to me, and you sacrificed them as food to idols. Was your prostitution not enough?
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Related Topics
- Abominations
- Abominations, Idolatry Is
- Abominations, Practices
- Abominations, To God
- Absence Of Thought
- Baal Worship, Nature Of
- Child sacrifice
- False Gods
- False Religion
- Firstborn
- God Hating Things
- Hatred
- Human Sacrifices
- I Am The Lord
- Idol Worship