Leviticus 18:21

New American Bible - revised edition

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

Cross References

1 Kings 11:33

For they have forsaken me and have bowed down to Astarte, goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh, god of Moab, and Milcom, god of the Ammonites. They have not walked in my ways or done what is right in my eyes, according to my statutes and my ordinances, as David his father did.

1 Kings 11:7

Solomon then built a high place to Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, and to Molech, the abomination of the Ammonites, on the mountain opposite Jerusalem.

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 17:31

those from Avva made Nibhaz and Tartak; and those from Sepharvaim immolated their children by fire to their city gods, King Hadad and King Anu.

2 Kings 21:6

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.

2 Kings 23:10

The king also defiled Topheth in the Valley of Ben-hinnom, so that there would no longer be any immolation of sons or daughters by fire in honor of Molech.

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.

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.

Jeremiah 32:35

They built high places to Baal in the Valley of Ben-hinnom to sacrifice their sons and daughters to Molech; I never commanded them to do this, nor did it even enter my mind that they would practice this abomination, so as to bring sin upon Judah.

Jeremiah 7:31

In the Valley of Ben-hinnom they go on building the high places of Topheth to sacrifice their sons and daughters by fire, something I never commanded or considered.

Ezekiel 20:26

I let them become defiled by their offerings, by having them make a fiery offering of every womb’s firstborn, in order to ruin them so they might know that I am the Lord.

Ezekiel 20:31

By offering your gifts, by making your children pass through the fire, you defile yourselves with all your idols even to this day. Shall I let myself be consulted by you, house of Israel? As I live—oracle of the Lord God—I swear I will not let myself be consulted by you!

Ezekiel 23:37

For they committed adultery, and blood covers their hands. They committed adultery with their idols; even the children they bore for me they burnt as food for them.

Leviticus 19:12

You shall not swear falsely by my name, thus profaning the name of your God. I am the Lord.

Leviticus 21:6

They shall be holy to their God, and shall not profane their God’s name, since they offer the oblations of the Lord, the food of their God; so they must be holy.

Leviticus 22:2

Tell Aaron and his sons to treat with respect the sacred offerings which the Israelites consecrate to me; otherwise they will profane my holy name. I am the Lord.

Leviticus 22:32

Do not profane my holy name, that in the midst of the Israelites I may be hallowed. I, the Lord, make you holy,

Leviticus 24:15

Tell the Israelites: Anyone who blasphemes God shall bear the penalty;

Amos 2:7

They trample the heads of the destitute into the dust of the earth, and force the lowly out of the way. Son and father sleep with the same girl, profaning my holy name.

Amos 5:26

Yet you will carry away Sukuth, your king, and Kaiwan, your star-image, your gods that you have made for yourselves,

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?

Malachi 1:12

But you profane it by saying that the Lord’s table is defiled, and its food may be disdained.

Acts 7:43

No, you took up the tent of Moloch and the star of [your] god Rephan, the images that you made to worship. So I shall take you into exile beyond Babylon.’

Romans 1:23

and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for the likeness of an image of mortal man or of birds or of four-legged animals or of snakes.

Romans 2:24

For, as it is written, “Because of you the name of God is reviled among the Gentiles.”

Deuteronomy 12:31

You shall not worship the Lord, your God, that way, because they offered to their gods every abomination that the Lord detests, even burning their sons and daughters to their gods.

Deuteronomy 18:10

Let there not be found among you anyone who causes their son or daughter to pass through the fire, or practices divination, or is a soothsayer, augur, or sorcerer,