Jeremiah 19:5

and built high places for Baal, to burn their children in the fire, which things I commanded not, neither did I design them in my heart:

Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

They have built also the high places of Baal, to burn their sons with fire for burnt offerings unto Baal, which I commanded not, nor spake it, neither came it into my mind:

In Context

4Because they forsook me, and profaned this place, and burnt incense in it to strange gods, which they and their fathers knew not; and the kings of Juda have filled this place with innocent blood,

6Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when this place shall no more be called, The fall and burial-place of the son of Ennom, but, The burial-place of slaughter.

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Cross References

Leviticus 18:21And thou shalt not give of thy seed to serve a ruler; and thou shalt not profane my holy name; I am the Lord.

Deuteronomy 12:31Thou shalt not do so to thy God; for they have sacrificed + 12:31 Gr. in, or, among.to their gods the abominations of the Lord which he hates, for they burn their sons and their daughters in fire to their gods.

2 Kings 21:6And he caused his sons to pass through the fire, and used divination and auspices, and made + 21:6 Lit. peculiar places cut off.groves, and multiplied + 21:6 Alex. θελητὴν.wizards, so as to do that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to anger.

Psalms 106:37And they sow fields, and plant vineyards, and they yield fruit of increase.

Jeremiah 32:35And flight shall perish from the shepherds, and safety from the rams of the flock.

Ezekiel 20:26And I will defile them by their own decrees, when I pass through upon every one that opens the womb, that I may destroy them.

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 19:2-10

The Desolation of Jerusalem. ( b. c. 600.) 1 Thus saith the Lord , Go and get a potter's earthen bottle, and take of the ancients of the people, and of the ancients of the priests; 2 And go forth unto the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is by the entry of the east gate, and proclaim there the words that I shall tell thee, 3 And say, Hear ye the word of the Lord , O kings of Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem; Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, the which… Read the whole commentary →

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