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He burned his sons[a] as an offering in the Ben-hinnom Valley, practiced fortune-telling, witchcraft, sorcery, and communicated with mediums and spiritualists. He did a lot of things that the Lord considered to be evil, thus provoking him. He also placed an image that he had carved in God’s Temple, the place about which God had told to David and to his son Solomon, “I will place my name in this Temple and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel,”[b] and “I won’t let Israel’s foothold slip on the land that I’ve given to your ancestors, if only they will be careful to keep everything that I commanded them in the Law, in the statutes, and in the ordinance through Moses.”[c]

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 33:6 Lit. He passed his sons through fire
  2. 2 Chronicles 33:7 Cf. 1King 9:3-5; 2Chr 7:16; 33:4
  3. 2 Chronicles 33:8 Cf. 2Sam 7:10