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 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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Leviticus 18:21
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21 And you shall not let any of your descendants (A)pass through (B)the fire to (C)Molech, nor shall you profane the name of your God: I am the Lord.
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Jeremiah 19:5-6
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5 (A)(they have also built the high places of Baal, to burn their sons with fire for burnt offerings to Baal, (B)which I did not command or speak, nor did it come into My mind), 6 therefore behold, the days are coming,” says the Lord, “that this place shall no more be called Tophet or (C)the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter.
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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 Chronicles 28:2-3
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2 For he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and made (A)molded images for (B)the Baals. 3 He burned incense in (C)the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, and burned (D)his children in the (E)fire, according to the abominations of the nations whom the Lord had (F)cast out before the children of Israel.
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2 Kings 23:10
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10 And he defiled (A)Topheth, which is in (B)the Valley of the [a]Son of Hinnom, (C)that no man might make his son or his daughter (D)pass through the fire to Molech.
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- 2 Kings 23:10 Kt. Sons
1 Kings 16:19
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19 because of the sins which he had committed in doing evil in the sight of the Lord, (A)in walking in the (B)way of Jeroboam, and in his sin which he had committed to make Israel sin.
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Leviticus 20:2-5
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2 (A)“Again, you shall say to the children of Israel: (B)‘Whoever of the children of Israel, or of the strangers who [a]dwell in Israel, who gives any of his descendants to Molech, he shall surely be put to death. The people of the land shall (C)stone him with stones. 3 (D)I will set My face against that man, and will [b]cut him off from his people, because he has given some of his descendants to Molech, to defile My sanctuary and profane My holy name. 4 And if the people of the land should in any way [c]hide their eyes from the man, when he gives some of his descendants to Molech, and they do not kill him, 5 then I will set My face against that man and against his family; and I will cut him off from his people, and all who prostitute themselves with him to commit harlotry with Molech.
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- Leviticus 20:2 As resident aliens
- Leviticus 20:3 Put him to death
- Leviticus 20:4 disregard
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 16:20-21
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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, 21 that you have slain My children and offered them up to them by causing them to pass through the (B)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?
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.
2 Chronicles 33:9
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9 So Manasseh seduced Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to do more evil than the nations whom the Lord had destroyed before the children of Israel.
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2 Kings 23:15
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15 Moreover the altar that was at Bethel, and the [a]high place (A)which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel sin, had made, both that altar and the high place he broke down; and he burned the high place and crushed it to powder, and burned the wooden image.
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- 2 Kings 23:15 A place for pagan worship
2 Kings 21:11
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11 (A)“Because Manasseh king of Judah has done these abominations ((B)he has acted more wickedly than all the (C)Amorites who were before him, and (D)has also made Judah sin with his idols),
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2 Kings 3:3
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3 Nevertheless he persisted in (A)the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who had made Israel sin; he did not depart from them.
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1 Kings 21:22
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22 I will make your house like the house of (A)Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of (B)Baasha the son of Ahijah, because of the provocation with which you have provoked Me to anger, and made Israel sin.’
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1 Kings 15:30
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30 (A)because of the sins of Jeroboam, which he had sinned and by which he had made Israel sin, because of his provocation with which he had provoked the Lord God of Israel to anger.
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1 Kings 15:26
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26 And he did evil in the sight of the Lord, and walked in the way of his father, and in (A)his sin by which he had made Israel sin.
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1 Kings 14:16
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16 And He will give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, (A)who sinned and who made Israel sin.”
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1 Kings 11:33
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33 (A)because [a]they have forsaken Me, and worshiped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the god of the people of Ammon, and have not walked in My ways to do what is right in My eyes and keep My statutes and My judgments, as did his father David.
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- 1 Kings 11:33 So with MT, Tg.; LXX, Syr., Vg. he has
Deuteronomy 24:4
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4 (A)then her former husband who divorced her must not take her back to be his wife after she has been defiled; for that is [a]an abomination before the Lord, and you shall not bring sin on the land which the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance.
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- Deuteronomy 24:4 a detestable thing
Deuteronomy 18:10
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10 There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter (A)pass[a] through the fire, (B)or one who practices witchcraft, or a soothsayer, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer,
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- Deuteronomy 18:10 Be burned as an offering to an idol
Exodus 32:21
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21 And Moses said to Aaron, (A)“What did this people do to you that you have brought so great a sin upon them?”
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