PAGAN SACRIFICES!

 

Question:  I read there was a King of Judah who allowed child sacrifices to take place, the name given is Manasseh is this accurate?

 

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Evidence concerning Moloch worship in ancient Israel is found in the legal, as well as in the historical and prophetic literature of the Bible.  In the Pentateuch, the laws of the Holiness Code speak about giving or passing children to Moloch (Lev. 18:21, 20:2–4) and the law in Deuteronomy speaks of "passing [one's] son or daughter through fire" (18:10).  Although Moloch is not named in the Deuteronomy passage, it is likely that his cult was the object of the prohibition.

Kings 16:3 [son], 17:17, 21:6 [son]).

Kings 23:10 speaks about "passing [one's] son or daughter through fire to Moloch."  Some scholars interpret the phrase le-ha'avir ba-esh, as a reference to a divinatory or protective rite in which children were passed through a fire but not physically harmed.  However, the same phrase le-ha'avir ba-esh is found in an unmistakable context of burning in Numbers 31:23.

Other biblical texts refer to the sacrifice of children.  Psalms 106:37–38 speaks of child sacrifice to the unnamed idols of Canaan.  In prophetic sources, Jeremiah 7:31 and Ezekiel 20:25–6 speak disapprovingly of sacrificing children to Yahweh (for the "bad statutes" referred to by Ezekiel, see Ex. 22:28–29; but see Friebel); Jeremiah 19:5 speaks of sacrificing children to Baal; Ezekiel 16:21, 20:31, 23:37, 39 of sacrificing children to unnamed divinities; as does Isaiah 57:5.  In none of these is there a mention of Moloch. Only in Jeremiah 32:35 is Moloch mentioned by name and there he is associated with Baal.

The biblical account of Manasseh is found in 2 Kings 21:1–18 and 2 Chronicles 32:33–33:20.  He is also mentioned in Jeremiah 15:4, where the prophet Jeremiah predicts "four forms of destruction" for the people of Judah because of the evil done by Manasseh in Judah.[1]

These Pagan evil practices, were one of the worst that Israel’s leaders allowed!

There were /are many more, which is why they are as yet not “Ammi” (My people); which will take place when they meet the Lord Jesus at His 2nd Advent, Zech.12:10, and Romans 9:25–26.  See:  ZECHARIAH 12:10!     

A good summary of Israel’s past corruption is summarised in Malachi!

See Also:

Satanic SPIRITUAL Strongholds!   

Satanic Worship; Rev. Chp. 13:8(a).

Satan and The Flood    

Satan's Angels; Rev. Chps. 12:4(a), 7, 9,12(a)(c) & 13:17(c)

Satan's Contest with God    

Satan's Final Destruction   

 

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