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27 Then he took his oldest son who was to reign in his place (A)and offered him for a burnt offering on the wall. And there came great wrath against Israel. And they withdrew from him and returned to their own land.

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but he walked in the way of the kings of Israel. (A)He even burned his son as an offering,[a] (B)according to the despicable practices of the nations whom the Lord drove out before the people of Israel.

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  1. 2 Kings 16:3 Or made his son pass through the fire

(A)And he burned his son as an offering[a] and (B)used fortune-telling and (C)omens and dealt (D)with mediums and with necromancers. He did much evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger.

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  1. 2 Kings 21:6 Hebrew made his son pass through the fire

10 And he defiled (A)Topheth, which is (B)in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, (C)that no one might burn his son or his daughter as an offering to (D)Molech.[a]

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  1. 2 Kings 23:10 Hebrew might cause his son or daughter to pass through the fire for Molech

21 You shall not give any of your children to (A)offer them[a] to (B)Molech, and so (C)profane the name of your God: I am the Lord.

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  1. Leviticus 18:21 Hebrew to make them pass through [the fire]