Deuteronomy 12:31

Modern English Version

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.

Cross References

2 Kings 16:3

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.

2 Kings 17:31

the Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak. The Sepharvites were burning their children in fire to Adrammelek and Anammelek, the gods of Sepharvaim.

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 3:27

Then he took his firstborn son, who would have reigned in his place, and offered him for a burnt offering on the wall. And great wrath came upon Israel, and they departed from him and returned to their own land.

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 36:14

Even the officials over the priests and the people increased in their unfaithfulness in all the detestable practices of the nations, and they defiled the house of the Lord which He had consecrated in Jerusalem.

Psalm 106:37

They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to the demons,

Exodus 23:2

You must not follow the masses to do evil, and do not testify in a dispute that agrees with the crowd to pervert justice.

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.

Jeremiah 7:31

They have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the Valley of Ben-hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire, which I did not command them, nor did it come into My heart.

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.

Ezekiel 23:27

Thus I will make your lewdness and your harlotry brought from the land of Egypt to cease from you so that you shall not lift up your eyes to them or remember Egypt anymore.

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 18:3

After the practices of the land of Egypt, from where you lived, you shall not follow, and after the practices of the land of Canaan, to where I will bring you, you shall not follow; nor shall you walk in their ordinances.

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 12:30

take heed to yourself so that you are not ensnared by following them, after they have been destroyed before you, and that you not inquire after their gods, saying, “How did these nations serve their gods? Even so I will do likewise.”

Deuteronomy 12:4

You shall not act this way toward the Lord your God.

Deuteronomy 20:18

so that they do not teach you to participate in all their abominations, which they have done to their gods, causing you to sin against the Lord your God.

Deuteronomy 9:4

Do not say in your heart, after the Lord your God has driven them out before you, “On account of my righteousness the Lord has brought me in to possess this land,” but it is because of the wickedness of these nations the Lord is driving them out before you.

Deuteronomy 9:5

It is not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart that you enter to possess their land, but because of the wickedness of these nations that the Lord your God drives them out before you, and that He may fulfill the word which the Lord swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.