Ezekiel 16:20
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20 (A)“Moreover you took your sons and your daughters, whom you bore to Me, and these you sacrificed to them to be devoured. Were your acts of harlotry a small matter,
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Ezekiel 23:37
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37 For they have committed adultery, and (A)blood is on their hands. They have committed adultery with their idols, and even sacrificed their sons (B)whom they bore to Me, passing them through the fire, to devour them.
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Ezekiel 20:31
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31 For when you offer (A)your gifts and make your sons pass through the fire, you defile yourselves with all your idols, even to this day. So shall I be inquired of by you, O house of Israel? As I live,” says the Lord God, “I will (B)not be inquired of by you.
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Jeremiah 7:31
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31 And they have built the (A)high places of Tophet, which is in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, to (B)burn their sons and their daughters in the fire, (C)which I did not command, nor did it come into My heart.
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Psalm 106:37-38
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37 (A)They even sacrificed their sons
And their daughters to (B)demons,
38 And shed innocent blood,
The blood of their sons and daughters,
Whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan;
And (C)the land was polluted with blood.
Exodus 13:2
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2 (A)“Consecrate[a] to Me all the firstborn, whatever opens the womb among the children of Israel, both of man and beast; it is Mine.”
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- Exodus 13:2 Set apart
Ezekiel 20:26
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26 and I pronounced them unclean because of their ritual gifts, in that they caused all [a]their firstborn to pass (A)through the fire, that I might make them desolate and that they (B)might know that I am the Lord.” ’
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- Ezekiel 20:26 Lit. that open the womb
Ezekiel 16:21
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21 that you have slain My children and offered them up to them by causing them to pass through the (A)fire?
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Isaiah 57:5
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5 Inflaming yourselves with gods (A)under every green tree,
(B)Slaying the children in the valleys,
Under the clefts of the rocks?
Deuteronomy 29:11-12
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11 your little ones and your wives—also the stranger who is in your camp, from (A)the one who cuts your wood to the one who draws your water— 12 that you may enter into covenant with the Lord your God, and (B)into His oath, which the Lord your God makes with you today,
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Exodus 13:12
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12 (A)that you shall [a]set apart to the Lord all that open the womb, that is, every firstborn that comes from an animal which you have; the males shall be the Lord’s.
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- Exodus 13:12 Lit. cause to pass over
Ezekiel 23:39
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39 For after they had slain their children for their idols, on the same day they came into My sanctuary to profane it; and indeed (A)thus they have done in the midst of My house.
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Ezekiel 23:4
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4 Their names: [a]Oholah the elder and [b]Oholibah (A)her sister;
(B)They were Mine,
And they bore sons and daughters.
As for their names,
Samaria is Oholah, and Jerusalem is Oholibah.
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- Ezekiel 23:4 Lit. Her Own Tabernacle
- Ezekiel 23:4 Lit. My Tabernacle Is in Her
Ezekiel 8:17
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17 And He said to me, “Have you seen this, O son of man? Is it a trivial thing to the house of Judah to commit the abominations which they commit here? For they have (A)filled the land with violence; then they have returned to provoke Me to anger. Indeed they put the branch to their nose.
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Jeremiah 32:35
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35 And they built the high places of Baal which are in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, to (A)cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire to (B)Molech, (C)which I did not command them, nor did it come into My mind that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.’
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Jeremiah 2:34-35
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34 Also on your skirts is found
(A)The blood of the lives of the poor innocents.
I have not found it by [a]secret search,
But plainly on all these things.
35 (B)Yet you say, ‘Because I am innocent,
Surely His anger shall turn from me.’
Behold, (C)I will plead My case against you,
(D)Because you say, ‘I have not sinned.’
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- Jeremiah 2:34 digging
2 Chronicles 33:6
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6 (A)Also he caused his sons to pass through the fire in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom; he practiced (B)soothsaying, used witchcraft and sorcery, and (C)consulted mediums and spiritists. He did much evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke Him to anger.
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2 Kings 16:3
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3 But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel; indeed (A)he made his son pass through the fire, according to the (B)abominations of the nations whom the Lord had cast out from before the children of Israel.
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Genesis 17:7
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7 And I will (A)establish My covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you in their generations, for an everlasting covenant, (B)to be God to you and (C)your descendants after you.
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