Because they have forsaken Me, and bow themselves to Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, to Chemosh the god of Moab, to Milcom the god of the sons of Ammon; and have not walked in My ways, to do the right in My eyes, and My statutes and My judgments, as his father David did.
Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, in the hill that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the abomination of the sons of Ammon;
But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and also he caused his son to pass through the fire, like the disgusting things of the nations whom Jehovah had cast out from before the sons of Israel.
And he made his son to pass through the fire, used magic, and used divination, and dealt with mediums and spiritknowers. He increased to work the evil in the eyes of Jehovah, to provoke Him to anger.
And he himself burned incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and burned his sons in the fire, like the disgusting acts of the nations that Jehovah dispossessed from before the sons of Israel;
They have also built the high places of Baal, to burn their sons with fire for burnt offerings to Baal, which I did not command and did not speak, and it did not come into My heart.
And they built the high places of Baal which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire to Molech, which I did not command them, and not did it come into My heart, that they should do this disgusting thing, to cause Judah to sin.
They have built the high places of Tophet in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire, which I did not command,and not did it come into My heart.
And I defiled them by their own gifts, by making all the first-born to pass through the fire, so that I might waste them, to the end that they might know that I am Jehovah.
For in your lifting up your gifts, in your making your sons pass through the fire, you defile yourselves with all your idols, even to this day. And shall I be inquired of by you, O house of Israel? As I live, a statement of the Lord Jehovah, I will not be inquired of by you.
For they have done adultery, and blood is on their hands. Yea, they have done adultery with their idols, and even their sons whom they bore to Me, they cause to pass to them to be devoured.
they are holy to their God, and they shall not pollute the name of their God. For they offer the fire offerings of Jehovah, bread of their God, and they are holy.
Speak to Aaron, and to his sons, that they set themselves apart from the holy things of the sons of Israel, and that they do not profane My holy name in what they devote to Me; I am Jehovah.
panting for the dust of the earth to be on the head of the poor one, and stretch out the way of the humble one. And a man and his father will go in to the same girl, in order to profane the name of My holiness.
Will Jehovah be pleased with thousands of rams, with myriads of torrents of oil? Shall I give my first-born for my transgression, the fruit of my womb for the sin of my soul?
And you took up the tent of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan, the figures which you made” “in order to worship them. And I will remove you beyond” Babylon. Amos 5:25-27
and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into a likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of birds, and fourfooted animals, and creeping things.
You shall not do so to Jehovah your God; for every disgusting thing to Jehovah, which He detests, they have done to their gods. For they have even burned their sons and their daughters in the fire to their gods.
There shall not be found in you one who passes his son or his daughter through the fire, one that uses divination, an observer of clouds, or one divining, or a whisperer of spells,