Leviticus 18:21
21You shall not give any of your children to aoffer them ▼▼Hebrew to make them pass through [the fire]
to cMolech, and so dprofane the name of your God: I am the Lord. 2 Kings 23:10
10And he defiled eTopheth, which is fin the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, gthat no one might burn his son or his daughter as an offering to hMolech. ▼▼Hebrew might cause his son or daughter to pass through the fire for Molech
Jeremiah 7:31
31And they have built the high places of jTopheth, which is in kthe Valley of the Son of Hinnom, lto burn their sons and their daughters in the fire, mwhich I did not command, nor did it come into my mind.Jeremiah 19:5-6
5 nand have built the high places of Baal oto burn their sons in the fire as burnt offerings to Baal, pwhich I did not command or decree, nor did it come into my mind— 6therefore, qbehold, days are coming, declares the Lord, when this place shall no more be called Topheth, or rthe Valley of the Son of Hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter.Ezekiel 16:20-21
20 sAnd you took your sons and your daughters, whom you had borne to me, and tthese you sacrificed to them to be devoured. Were your whorings so small a matter 21that you slaughtered my children and delivered them up as an offering by fire to them?Ezekiel 23:39
39For when uthey had slaughtered their children in sacrifice to their idols, on the same day vthey came into my sanctuary to profane it. And behold, wthis is what they did in my house.
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