2 Kings 21:6

New American Bible - revised edition

He immolated his child by fire. He practiced soothsaying and divination, and reintroduced the consulting of ghosts and spirits. He did much evil in the Lord’s sight and provoked him to anger.

Cross References

Genesis 13:13

Now the inhabitants of Sodom were wicked, great sinners against the Lord.

2 Kings 16:3

He walked in the way of the kings of Israel; he even immolated his child by fire, in accordance with the abominable practices of the nations whom the Lord had dispossessed before the Israelites.

2 Kings 17:17

They immolated their sons and daughters by fire. They practiced augury and divination. They surrendered themselves to doing what was evil in the Lord’s sight, and provoked him.

2 Kings 23:24

Further, Josiah purged the consultation of ghosts and spirits, with the household gods, idols, and all the other horrors to be seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, so that he might carry out the words of the law that were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest had found in the house of the Lord.

1 Chronicles 10:13

Thus Saul died because of his treason against the Lord in disobeying his word, and also because he had sought counsel from a ghost,

2 Chronicles 28:3

Moreover, he offered sacrifice in the Valley of Ben-hinnom, and immolated his children by fire in accordance with the abominable practices of the nations whom the Lord had dispossessed before the Israelites.

2 Chronicles 33:6

It was he, too, who immolated his children by fire in the Valley of Ben-hinnom. He practiced soothsaying and divination, and reintroduced the consulting of ghosts and spirits. He did much evil in the Lord’s sight and provoked him to anger.

Isaiah 19:3

The courage of the Egyptians shall ebb away within them, and I will bring their counsel to nought; They shall consult idols and charmers, ghosts and clairvoyants.

Isaiah 66:4

I in turn will choose affliction for them and bring upon them what they fear. Because when I called, no one answered, when I spoke, no one listened. Because they did what was evil in my sight, and things I do not delight in they chose,

Isaiah 8:19

And when they say to you, “Inquire of ghosts and soothsayers who chirp and mutter; should not a people inquire of their gods, consulting the dead on behalf of the living,

Jeremiah 19:4

All because they have forsaken me and profaned this place by burning incense to other gods which neither they nor their ancestors knew; and because the kings of Judah have filled this place with innocent blood,

Jeremiah 19:5

building high places for Baal to burn their children in fire as offerings to Baal—something I never considered or said or commanded.

Ezekiel 23:39

On the very day they slaughtered their children for their idols, they entered my sanctuary to desecrate it. Thus they acted within my house!

Leviticus 18:21

You shall not offer any of your offspring for immolation to Molech, thus profaning the name of your God. I am the Lord.

Leviticus 19:26

Do not eat anything with the blood still in it. Do not recite charms or practice soothsaying.

Leviticus 19:31

Do not turn to ghosts or consult spirits, by which you will be defiled. I, the Lord, am your God.

Micah 6:7

Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, with myriad streams of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my crime, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?

Acts 16:16

As we were going to the place of prayer, we met a slave girl with an oracular spirit, who used to bring a large profit to her owners through her fortune-telling.

Deuteronomy 32:16

With strange gods they incited him, with abominations provoked him to anger.

Deuteronomy 32:21

Since they have incited me with a “no-god,” and provoked me with their empty idols, I will incite them with a “no-people”; with a foolish nation I will provoke them.