2 Kings 23:10
And he defiled Taphes which is in the valley of the son of Ennom, constructed for a man to cause his son or his daughter to pass through + 23:10 Gr. in fire. fire to Moloch.
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Deuteronomy 18:10There shall not be found in you one who purges his son or his daughter with fire, one who + 18:10 Gr. divines. uses divination, who deals with omens, and augury,
2 Kings 17:17And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divinations and auspices, and + 17:17 Gr. were sold. sold themselves to work wickedness in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him.
2 Chronicles 28:3And he sacrificed to their idols in the valley of Benennom, and passed his children through the fire, according to the abominations of the heathen, whom the Lord cast out from before the children of Israel.
Nehemiah 11:30And their villages were Lachis and her hands: and they pitched their tents in Bersabee.
Jeremiah 7:31And they have built the altar of Taphes, which is in the valley of the son of Ennom, to burn their sons and their daughters with fire; which I did not command them to do, neither did I design it in my heart.
Matthew Henry on 2 Kings 23:5-25
Josiah Reforms Judah. ( b. c. 623.) 4 And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the door, to bring forth out of the temple of the Lord all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the grove, and for all the host of heaven: and he burned them without Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and carried the ashes of them unto Beth-el. 5 And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the… Read the whole commentary →