2 Kings 21:6 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

⁶ He sacrificed his son in the fire,  , practised witchcraft and divination, and consulted mediums and spiritists.  He did a huge amount of evil in the Lord’s sight, angering him.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ And he made his son pass through the fire, and observed times, and used enchantments, and dealt with familiar spirits and wizards: he wrought much wickedness in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ And he made his son pass through the fire and burned him as an offering [to Molech]; he practiced soothsaying and augury, and dealt with mediums and wizards! He did much wickedness in the sight of the Lord, provoking Him to anger.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ And he made his son to pass through the fire, and practised augury, and used enchantments, and dealt with them that had familiar spirits, and with wizards: he wrought much evil in the sight of Jehovah, to provoke him to anger.

Common English Bible

⁶ He burned his own son alive, consulted sign readers and fortune-tellers, and used mediums and diviners. He did much evil in the LORD’s eyes and made him angry.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ And he led his son through fire. And he used divinations, and observed omens, and appointed soothsayers, and multiplied diviners, so that he did evil before the Lord, and provoked him.

2 Kings 21:6 Cross References

Genesis 13:13

(Now the men of Sodom were evil, sinning immensely  against the Lord.)

2 Kings 16:3

but walked in the ways of the kings of Israel.  He even sacrificed his son in the fire,  imitating the detestable practices of the nations the Lord had dispossessed before the Israelites.

2 Kings 17:17

They sacrificed their sons and daughters in the fire  , and practised divination and interpreted omens.  They devoted themselves to do what was evil in the Lord’s sight and angered him.

2 Kings 23:24

In addition, Josiah eradicated the mediums, the spiritists,  household idols,  images, and all the abhorrent things  that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem. He did this in order to carry out the words of the law that were written in the book that the priest Hilkiah found in the Lord’s temple.

1 Chronicles 10:13

Saul died for his unfaithfulness to the Lord because he did not keep the Lord’s word.  He even consulted a medium for guidance,

2 Chronicles 28:3

He burned incense in Ben Hinnom Valley  and burned his children in  , the fire, imitating the detestable practices of the nations the Lord had dispossessed before the Israelites.

2 Chronicles 33:6

He passed his sons through the fire in Ben Hinnom Valley.  He practised witchcraft, divination, and sorcery, and consulted mediums and spiritists.  He did a huge amount of evil in the Lord’s sight, angering him.

Isaiah 19:3

Egypt’s spirit will be disturbed within it, and I will frustrate its plans. Then they will enquire of worthless idols, ghosts, mediums, and spiritists.

Isaiah 66:4

So I will choose their punishment, and I will bring on them what they dread because I called and no one answered; I spoke and they did not listen; they did what was evil in my sight and chose what I did not delight in.

Isaiah 8:19

When they say to you, ‘Enquire of the mediums and the spiritists who chirp and mutter,’  shouldn’t a people enquire of their God?  Should they enquire of the dead on behalf of the living?

Jeremiah 19:4

because they have abandoned me  and made this a foreign place. They have burned incense in it to other gods that they, their ancestors, and the kings of Judah have never known. They have filled this place with the blood of the innocent.

Jeremiah 19:5

They have built high places to Baal on which to burn their children in the fire as burnt offerings to Baal, something I have never commanded or mentioned; I never entertained the thought.  ,

Ezekiel 23:39

On the same day they slaughtered their children for their idols, they entered my sanctuary to profane it.  Yes, that is what they did inside my house.

Leviticus 18:21

‘You are not to sacrifice any of your children in the fire  to Molech.  Do not profane the name  of your God; I am the Lord.

Leviticus 19:26

‘You are not to eat anything with blood in it.  , You are not to practise divination  or witchcraft.

Leviticus 19:31

‘Do not turn to mediums  , or consult spiritists,  , or you will be defiled by them; I am the Lord your God.

Micah 6:7

Would the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams or with ten thousand streams of oil? Should I give my firstborn for my transgression, the offspring of my body for my own sin?

Acts 16:16

Once, as we were on our way to prayer, a slave girl met us who had a spirit by which she predicted the future.  She made a large profit for her owners by fortune-telling.

Deuteronomy 32:16

They provoked his jealousy with different gods; they enraged him with detestable practices.

Deuteronomy 32:21

They have provoked my jealousy with what is not a god; they have enraged me with their worthless idols. So I will provoke their jealousy with what is not a people; I will enrage them with a foolish nation.