Micah 6:7
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7 Should we offer him thousands of rams
and ten thousand rivers of olive oil?
Should we sacrifice our firstborn children
to pay for our sins?
2 Kings 16:3
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3 Instead, he followed the example of the kings of Israel, even sacrificing his own son in the fire.[a] In this way, he followed the detestable practices of the pagan nations the Lord had driven from the land ahead of the Israelites.
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- 16:3 Or even making his son pass through the fire.
Psalm 51:16
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16 You do not desire a sacrifice, or I would offer one.
You do not want a burnt offering.
1 Samuel 15:22
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22 But Samuel replied,
“What is more pleasing to the Lord:
your burnt offerings and sacrifices
or your obedience to his voice?
Listen! Obedience is better than sacrifice,
and submission is better than offering the fat of rams.
Hosea 6:6
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6 I want you to show love,[a]
not offer sacrifices.
I want you to know me[b]
more than I want burnt offerings.
Jeremiah 7:31
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31 They have built pagan shrines at Topheth, the garbage dump in the valley of Ben-Hinnom, and there they burn their sons and daughters in the fire. I have never commanded such a horrible deed; it never even crossed my mind to command such a thing!
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Psalm 50:9
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9 But I do not need the bulls from your barns
or the goats from your pens.
2 Kings 23:10
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10 Then the king defiled the altar of Topheth in the valley of Ben-Hinnom, so no one could ever again use it to sacrifice a son or daughter in the fire[a] as an offering to Molech.
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- 23:10 Or to make a son or daughter pass through the fire.
2 Kings 21:6
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6 Manasseh also sacrificed his own son in the fire.[a] He practiced sorcery and divination, and he consulted with mediums and psychics. He did much that was evil in the Lord’s sight, arousing his anger.
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- 21:6 Or also made his son pass through the fire.
Isaiah 40:16
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16 All the wood in Lebanon’s forests
and all Lebanon’s animals would not be enough
to make a burnt offering worthy of our God.
2 Kings 3:27
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27 Then the king of Moab took his oldest son, who would have been the next king, and sacrificed him as a burnt offering on the wall. So there was great anger against Israel,[a] and the Israelites withdrew and returned to their own land.
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- 3:27 Or So Israel’s anger was great. The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain.
Leviticus 18:21
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21 “Do not permit any of your children to be offered as a sacrifice to Molech, for you must not bring shame on the name of your God. I am the Lord.
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Philemon 12
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12 I am sending him back to you, and with him comes my own heart.
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