When you offer your gifts and make your children pass through the fire, you defile yourselves with all your idols to this day, and shall I be inquired of by you, O house of Israel? God refuses the exilic community's inquiry because they maintain the very idolatrous practices their ancestors committed. The child sacrifice reference indicts them with the ultimate violation of covenant law. The refusal to be inquired of establishes that authentic encounter with God requires abandonment of idolatry.

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