17 (A)And they burned their sons and their daughters as offerings[a] and used (B)divination and (C)omens and (D)sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger.

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  1. 2 Kings 17:17 Or made their sons and their daughters pass through the fire

(A)And he burned his son as an offering[a] and (B)used fortune-telling and (C)omens and dealt (D)with mediums and with necromancers. He did much evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger.

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  1. 2 Kings 21:6 Hebrew made his son pass through the fire

but he walked in the way of the kings of Israel. (A)He even burned his son as an offering,[a] (B)according to the despicable practices of the nations whom the Lord drove out before the people of Israel.

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  1. 2 Kings 16:3 Or made his son pass through the fire

10 There shall not be found among you anyone (A)who burns his son or his daughter as an offering,[a] anyone who (B)practices divination or (C)tells fortunes or interprets omens, or (D)a sorcerer 11 or a charmer or (E)a medium or a necromancer or (F)one who inquires of the dead, 12 (G)for whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord. And (H)because of these abominations the Lord your God is driving them out before you.

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  1. Deuteronomy 18:10 Hebrew makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire

37 For (A)they have committed adultery, (B)and blood is on their hands. With their idols they have committed adultery, and they have even (C)offered up[a] to them for food the children whom they had borne to me.

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  1. Ezekiel 23:37 Or have even made pass through the fire

20 Ahab said to Elijah, (A)“Have you found me, O my enemy?” He answered, “I have found you, because (B)you have sold yourself to do what is evil in the sight of the Lord.

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12 and I will cut off (A)sorceries from your hand,
    and (B)you shall have no more tellers of fortunes;

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37 They (A)sacrificed their sons
    and their daughters to (B)the demons;
38 they poured out innocent blood,
    the blood of their sons and daughters,
whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan,
    and the land was (C)polluted with blood.

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Ahab's Repentance

25 ((A)There was none who sold himself to do what was evil in the sight of the Lord like Ahab, whom Jezebel his wife incited.

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26 (A)“You shall not eat any flesh with the blood in it. (B)You shall not interpret omens or (C)tell fortunes.

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21 You shall not give any of your children to (A)offer them[a] to (B)Molech, and so (C)profane the name of your God: I am the Lord.

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  1. Leviticus 18:21 Hebrew to make them pass through [the fire]

26 (A)Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.

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Paul and Silas in Prison

16 As we were going to (A)the place of prayer, we were met by a slave girl who had (B)a spirit of (C)divination and (D)brought her owners much gain by fortune-telling.

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39 For when (A)they had slaughtered their children in sacrifice to their idols, on the same day (B)they came into my sanctuary to profane it. And behold, (C)this is what they did in my house.

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31 When you present your gifts and (A)offer up your children in fire,[a] you defile yourselves with all your idols to this day. And (B)shall I be inquired of by you, O house of Israel? (C)As I live, declares the Lord God, I will not be inquired of by you.

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  1. Ezekiel 20:31 Hebrew and make your children pass through the fire

26 and I defiled them through (A)their very gifts (B)in their offering up all their firstborn, that I might devastate them. I did it (C)that they might know that I am the Lord.

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So (A)do not listen to your (B)prophets, your diviners, your dreamers, your (C)fortune-tellers, or your sorcerers, who are saying to you, ‘You shall not serve the king of Babylon.’

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Israel's Sin and the Servant's Obedience

50 Thus says the Lord:
“Where is (A)your mother's certificate of divorce,
    with which (B)I sent her away?
Or (C)which of my creditors is it
    to whom I have sold you?
(D)Behold, for your iniquities you were sold,
    and for your transgressions your mother was sent away.

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12 (A)Stand fast in your enchantments
    and your many sorceries,
    with which you have labored from your youth;
perhaps you may be able to succeed;
    perhaps you may inspire terror.
13 You are wearied with your many counsels;
    let them stand forth and save you,
(B)those who divide the heavens,
    who gaze at the stars,
who at the new moons make known
    what shall come upon you.

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(A)These two things shall come to you
    in a moment, (B)in one day;
the loss of children and widowhood
    shall come upon you in full measure,
(C)in spite of your many sorceries
    and the great power of your enchantments.

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19 And when they say to you, “Inquire of the (A)mediums and the necromancers who chirp and mutter,” should not a people inquire of their God? Should they inquire of (B)the dead on behalf of the living?

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(A)And he burned his sons as an offering (B)in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, and (C)used fortune-telling and omens and sorcery, and dealt with (D)mediums and with necromancers. He did much evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger.

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and (A)he made offerings in the (B)Valley of the Son of Hinnom and (C)burned his sons as an offering,[a] according to (D)the abominations of the nations whom the Lord drove out before the people of Israel.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 28:3 Hebrew made his sons pass through the fire

11 and there they made offerings on all the high places, as the nations did whom the Lord carried away before them. And they did wicked things, provoking the Lord to anger,

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