Deuteronomy 12:31
You must not worship the Lord your God in this way, because they practice for their gods every abomination which the Lord hates. They even burn their sons and daughters in the fire as sacrifices to their gods.
Thou shalt not do so unto the Lord thy God: for every abomination to the Lord, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods.
Note to the: Heb. of the
You shall not do so to the Lord your God; for every abomination to the Lord, which he hates, they have done to their gods; for they even burn their sons and their daughters in the fire to their gods.
Thou shalt not do so unto Jehovah thy God: for every abomination to Jehovah, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters do they burn in the fire to their gods.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- Thou
- Deuteronomy 12:4; Deuteronomy 18:9; Exodus 23:2; Leviticus 18:3, 26–30; 2 Kings 17:15–17; 2 Kings 21:2; 2 Chronicles 33:2; 2 Chronicles 36:14
- abomination to the
- Heb. abomination of the. even theirsons. The unnatural and horrid practice of offering human sacrifices not only existed, but universally prevailed among ancient nations. We have already (Note on Lev 20:2) referred to the custom among the Phoenicians and Carthaginians, descendants from the Canaanitish nations, of sacrificing their children to Moloch, or Saturn; and we will now cite a passage from Diodorus Siculus, (lib. xx.) which immediately precedes that already produced relative to this barbarous custom. He states that the Carthaginians imputed their being besieged by Agathocles to the anger of Saturn, because, instead of sacrificing the best of their own children, as formerly, they had sacrificed children bought for that purpose. "In haste, therefore, to rectify their errors, they chose 200 of the noblest children, and publicly sacrificed them! Others, accused of irreligion, voluntarily gave themselves up, to the number of no less than 300!"
- Deuteronomy 18:10; Leviticus 18:21; Leviticus 20:2; Jeremiah 7:31; Jeremiah 32:35; Ezekiel 20:31; Ezekiel 23:27; Micah 6:7