Ezekiel 20:26 References
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and I pronounced them aunclean because of their gifts, in that they bcaused all their firstborn to pass through the fire so that I might make them desolate, in order that they might cknow that I am the Lord."'
b Jeremiah 7:31, Jeremiah 19:4-9
Jeremiah 7
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"They have abuilt the high places of Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to bburn their sons and their daughters in the fire, which I cdid not command, and it did not come into My mind.
Jeremiah 19
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"Because they have aforsaken Me and have bmade this an alien place and have burned sacrifices in it to cother gods, that neither they nor their forefathers nor the kings of Judah had ever known, and because they have filled this place with the dblood of the innocent
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and have built the ahigh places of Baal to burn their bsons in the fire as burnt offerings to Baal, a thing which I never commanded or spoke of, nor did it ever enter My mind;
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therefore, behold, adays are coming," declares the Lord, "when this place will no longer be called bTopheth or cthe valley of Ben-hinnom, but rather the valley of Slaughter.
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"I will amake void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place, and bI will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies and by the hand of those who seek their life; and I will give over their ccarcasses as food for the birds of the sky and the beasts of the earth.