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2 Chronicles 28:3

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

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.

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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.


He did what was evil in the Lord’s sight, imitating the detestable practices of the nations that the Lord had dispossessed before the Israelites.


‘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.


He defiled Topheth,  which is in Ben Hinnom Valley,  so that no one could sacrifice his son or daughter in the fire  , to Molech.


From there the border ascended Ben Hinnom Valley to the southern Jebusite slope (that is, Jerusalem) and ascended to the top of the hill that faces Hinnom Valley on the west, at the northern end of Rephaim Valley.


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?


They have built the high places of Baal in Ben Hinnom Valley to sacrifice their sons and daughters in the fire  to Molech   #– #something I had not commanded them. I had never entertained the thought  that they do this detestable act, causing Judah to sin!


The houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah will become impure like that place Topheth #– #all the houses on whose rooftops they have burned incense to all the stars in the sky  and poured out drink offerings to other gods.” ’


Moreover, your skirts are stained with the blood of the innocent poor. You did not catch them breaking and entering. But in spite of all these things


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.


‘When you enter the land the Lord your God is giving you, do not imitate the detestable customs of those nations.


You must not do the same to the Lord your God, because they practise every detestable act, which the Lord hates, for their gods. They even burn their sons and daughters in the fire to their gods.


No one among you is to sacrifice his son or daughter in the fire,  , practise divination, tell fortunes, interpret omens, practise sorcery,


The Israelites did what was evil in the Lord’s sight.  They worshipped the Baals


for they abandoned him and worshipped Baal and the Ashtoreths.


All the leaders of the priests and the people multiplied their unfaithful deeds, imitating all the detestable practices of the nations, and they defiled the Lord’s temple that he had consecrated in Jerusalem.





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