2 Kings 16:3

Modern English Version

He walked in the way of the kings of Israel and even made his son pass through the fire according to the abominations of the nations whom the Lord dispossessed before the Israelites.

Cross References

1 Kings 14:24

There were also male cult prostitutes in the land, and they did according to all the abominations of the nations that the Lord cast out before the Israelites.

2 Kings 17:16

They forsook all the commandments of the Lord their God, made themselves cast images (two calves), made an Asherah pole, worshipped all the host of heaven, and served Baal.

2 Kings 17:17

They caused their sons and daughters to pass through the fire, used divination and omens, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the Lord to anger Him.

2 Kings 17:19

Judah also did not keep the commandments of the Lord their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made.

2 Kings 17:8

and walked in the statutes of the nations, whom the Lord dispossessed before the Israelites, and walked in the statutes which the kings of Israel had made.

2 Kings 21:11

“Because Manasseh king of Judah has done these abominations, things more evil than all that the Amorites did, and has also caused Judah to sin with his idols,

2 Kings 21:2

He did evil in the sight of the Lord, according to the abominations of the nations whom the Lord dispossessed before the Israelites.

2 Kings 21:6

He made his son pass through the fire, was conjuring and seeking omens, and dealt with mediums and soothsayers. He did much evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking Him to anger.

2 Kings 21:9

But they did not listen. Manasseh led them to do more evil than the nations whom the Lord had destroyed before the Israelites.

2 Kings 23:10

He defiled Topheth, which is in the Valley of Ben Hinnom, so that no man would make his son or his daughter pass through the fire to Molech.

2 Kings 8:18

He walked in the way of the kings of Israel, just as the house of Ahab had done, for the daughter of Ahab was his wife. He did evil in the sight of the Lord.

2 Chronicles 22:3

And he also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab because his mother was the one counseling him to do evil.

2 Chronicles 33:2

But he did evil in the sight of the Lord, according to the abominations of the nations whom the Lord previously cast out before the Israelites.

2 Chronicles 33:6

He even made his sons pass through the fire in the Valley of Ben-hinnom; and he had conjurers, and practitioners of divination and sorcery, and necromancers, and mediums. So he did a great amount of evil in the eyes of the Lord, so that God was provoked.

Psalm 106:35

but they mingled with the nations and learned their works;

Isaiah 57:5

inflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clefts of the rocks?

Jeremiah 32:35

They built the high places of Baal which are in the Valley of Ben-hinnom to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire to Molech, which I had not commanded them, nor did it come into My mind that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.

Ezekiel 16:21

You have slain My children and delivered them up to idols by causing them to pass through the fire.

Ezekiel 16:47

Yet you have not walked after their ways, or done according to their abominations. But, as if that were a very little thing, you were corrupted more than they in all your ways.

Ezekiel 20:26

And I pronounced them unclean because of their gifts, in that they caused to pass through the fire all who opened the womb, that I might make them desolate in order that they might know that I am the Lord.

Ezekiel 20:31

When you offer your gifts, when you make your sons to pass through the fire, you pollute yourselves with all your idols, even to this day. And shall I be inquired of by you, O house of Israel? As I live, says the Lord God, I will not be inquired of by you.

Leviticus 18:21

You shall not let any of your children be offered through the fire to Molech, and so profane the name of your God: I am the Lord.

Leviticus 20:2

Again, you shall say to the Israelites: Whoever from the Israelites or from the foreigners who sojourn in Israel who gives any of his children to Molech, he shall surely be put to death. The people of the land shall stone him.

Micah 6:7

Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, with ten thousand rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?”

Deuteronomy 12:31

You shall not do so to the Lord your God, for every abomination to the Lord, which He hates, they have done to their gods. They have even burned their sons and their daughters in the fire to their gods.

Deuteronomy 18:10

There must not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, or who uses divination, or uses witchcraft, or an interpreter of omens, or a sorcerer,