21 “You are not to make any of your children pass through the fire to Molech.(A) Do not profane the name(B) of your God; I am Yahweh.

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but walked in the way of the kings of Israel.(A) He even made his son pass through the fire,[a] imitating the detestable practices of the nations the Lord had dispossessed before the Israelites.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 16:3 Either a Canaanite cult practice or child sacrifice

He burned incense in the Valley of Hinnom(A) and burned his children in[a](B) the fire, imitating the detestable practices of the nations the Lord had dispossessed before the Israelites.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 28:3 LXX, Syr, Tg read and passed his children through

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