“They have built also the high places of Baal, to burn their sons with fire for burnt offerings unto Baal, which I commanded not, nor spake it, neither came it into my mind:”
The building of high places for Baal and burning children in the fire represents the ultimate perversion of God's covenant—the sacrifice of human life, including Israel's own children, to false gods. This verse identifies not merely idolatry but human sacrifice as the central crime driving judgment. The historical reality of child sacrifice in this period makes the indictment concrete and verifiable. Such practices represent the complete moral inversion of the covenant; the people who should protect and nurture their children have instead murdered them for religious purposes.
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