Ezekiel 20:26
20:26 I declared them to be defiled because of their sacrifices
– they caused all their first born to pass through the fire
– so that I would devastate them, so that they will know that I am the
Lord.’
Ezekiel 20:31
20:31 When you present your sacrifices
– when you make your sons pass through the fire – you defile yourselves with all your idols to this very day. Will I allow you to seek me,
O house of Israel? As surely as I live, declares the sovereign
Lord, I will not allow you to seek me!
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,
they have passed through the fire as food to their idols.
Ezekiel 23:39
23:39 On the same day they slaughtered their sons for their idols, they came to my sanctuary to desecrate it. This is what they have done in the middle of my house.
Ezekiel 23:2
23:2 “Son of man, there were two women who were daughters of the same mother.
Ezekiel 16:3
16:3 and say, ‘This is what the sovereign
Lord says to Jerusalem: Your origin and your birth were in the land of the Canaanites; your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite.
Ezekiel 16:2
16:2 “Son of man, confront Jerusalem
with her abominable practices
Ezekiel 33:6
33:6 But suppose the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet to warn the people. Then the sword comes and takes one of their lives. He is swept away for his iniquity,
but I will hold the watchman accountable for that person’s death.’
Psalms 106:37-38
106:37 They sacrificed their sons and daughters to demons.
106:38 They shed innocent blood –
the blood of their sons and daughters,
whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan.
The land was polluted by bloodshed.
Isaiah 57:5
57:5 you who practice ritual sex under the oaks and every green tree,
who slaughter children near the streams under the rocky overhangs.
Jeremiah 7:31
7:31 They have also built places of worship
in a place called Topheth
in the Valley of Ben Hinnom so that they can sacrifice their sons and daughters by fire. That is something I never commanded them to do! Indeed, it never even entered my mind to command such a thing!
Jeremiah 32:35
32:35 They built places of worship for the god Baal in the Valley of Ben Hinnom so that they could sacrifice their sons and daughters to the god Molech.
Such a disgusting practice was not something I commanded them to do! It never even entered my mind to command them to do such a thing! So Judah is certainly liable for punishment.’
Micah 6:7
6:7 Will the Lord accept a thousand rams,
or ten thousand streams of olive oil?
Should I give him my firstborn child as payment for my rebellion,
my offspring – my own flesh and blood – for my sin?