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</html>";s:4:"text";s:34053:"Bible Verses About Fear In the same way that the ancient world pleaded with the gods through child sacrifice to save them from the suffering of diseases, famine, or wars, so today’s culture pleads to Molech through abortion to “save” women from the suffering of poverty, “oppressed status,” or gender wars. Outside the Bible, child sacrifice in Phoenician culture (like that of Tyre’s) has a significant presence in both textual and archaeological evidence. Some say Baal-Hammon is the equivalent of the high god El. While no evidence of child sacrifice has been uncovered in the Hinnom Valley, scholars today debate whether child sacrifice was practiced at Phoenician sites in the western … See Day, Molech, 52.)) That command was clearly and contextually testing of Abraham’s faith that Yahweh didn’t intend for Abraham to perform. Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of the children of Ammon, and for four, I will not turn away [the punishment] thereof; because they have ripped up the women with child of Gilead, that they might enlarge their border: Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, [and] I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations. God told him to sacrifice Isaac on a mountain. Innards (fat, kidneys, and part of the liver) were burned in the altar fire. (Read More...)Psalms 106:37-38 - Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils, (Read More...)Jeremiah 7:30-34 - For the children of Judah have done evil in my sight, saith the LORD: they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to pollute it. The obvious connection that child sacrifice has with the modern practice of abortion is not hard to catch, and thus the parallels between Jezebel’s day and our own are instructive. While certainly well-documented in religious texts, the historical and archaeological communities still debate Moloch’s identity and just how active its cult was. Well, those gods had their own statutes and rules that violated Yahweh’s law. Quoted in Lawrence E. Stager and Samuel R. Wolff, “Child Sacrifice at Carthage: Religious Rite or Population Control?” Biblical Archaeology Review 10:1 (1984), 14. There were no pet cemeteries, and animal sacrificial substitution for humans was common though not universal. The people of the land shall stone him with stones. Phrases like “sacrificing children in temples of Molech” or “on the altars of convenience” are used by pro-lifers of abortion clinics because the willing murder of one’s own offspring in order to bring benefit to a person’s life or to escape personal suffering is exactly what the motivation was behind child sacrifices of the ancient world. 1:24, 26, 28). That is a test of trust, not the validation of an evil. Sacrifice of well-being/fellowship offering (Hebrew, zevah shelamim; Lev 3, Lev 7:11-35) could be a herd or flock animal. The fact that many Israelites engaged in human sacrifice is simply proof of what the Bible says that they were spiritually unfaithful to Yahweh for so long that he sent them into exile precisely for sins such as child sacrifice. 32:35; also Jer. Child Sacrifice in Ancient Israel. 32:35). Bible Verses About Healing Traditionally, Moloch has been understood as referring to a Canaanite god. or “passing them through the fire” (Deut. Leviticus 18:21 - And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through [the fire] to Molech, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I [am] the LORD.Deuteronomy 12:31 - Thou shalt not do so unto the LORD thy God: for every abomination to the LORD, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods.Leviticus 20:1-5 - And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, (Read More...)Ezekiel 16:20-21 - Moreover thou hast taken thy sons and thy daughters, whom thou hast borne unto me, and these hast thou sacrificed unto them to be devoured. The most famous of sites is the Tophet at Carthage, North Africa, already referenced above. 20 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “Say to the people of Israel, () Any one of the people of Israel or of the strangers who sojourn in Israel who gives any of his children to Molech shall surely be put to death. I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of … Any mention of Canaanite child sacrifice in the Bible is just propaganda to justify the subjection of Canaan. Leviticus 20:1-5 ESV / 103 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful. The city of Carthage was founded by Dido of Tyre shortly after Jezebel’s death. 32:35.) [to Baal]. In the Old Testament we read of king Heels rebuilding of Jericho wherein he sacrificed his first born son Abiram his youngest son Segub. First-century BC Greek historian Diodorus Siculus: “In their zeal to make amends for their omission to sacrifice the noblest children, they selected two hundred of the noblest children and sacrificed them publicly; and others who were under suspicion sacrificed themselves voluntarily, in a number not less than three hundred. You journeyed to the king with oil [Molech] and multiplied your perfumes; you sent your envoys far off, and sent down even to Sheol. I sought to portray the reality of ancient child sacrifice in ancient Phoenicia and Israel in my new novel Jezebel: Harlot Queen of Israel. 12:31; also, Lev. It was sometimes referred to directly as “burning their sons and daughters in the fire” (Deut. After Solomon’s kingdom split, Israel too was guilty of child sacrifice that led to their Assyrian exile. Among the most ancient texts that reference it are the following that wrote about the city of Carthage in North Africa, a settlement of Phoenicians. In one sense, the modern reader will be shocked at how it could have been so normalized—until that astute reader realizes its analogy with the modern-day normalization of abortion, child sacrifice 2.0. ((See, 2 Esdras 7:36; 2 Baruch 59:10, 85:13; Mark 9:43, 45, 47. They are something I never told them to do! So the best translation of v. 25 is not God “gave them those statutes,” but rather as the NKJV translates, God “gave them up” to those evil laws and rules. Moreover thou hast taken thy sons and thy daughters, whom thou hast borne unto me, and these hast thou sacrificed unto them to be devoured. [valley of Molech] (Isaiah 57:5-9). Would Abraham be willing to do what he thought was wrong if Yahweh commanded it? And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger. Some children were still sacrificed. Indeed, such a thing never even entered my mind! But in Canaan Astarte was the consort, not of El, but of Baal, the “Most High.” So Baal-Hammon is most likely the equivalent of the Canaanite Baal-Hadad. The attempt to attribute child sacrifice to the Bible as if it were originally a normal part of Yahweh worship has no textual support from Scripture. Those innocent victims are described as food eaten by the gods (Ezek. When the flames fall upon the body, the limbs contract and the open mouth seems almost to be laughing, until the contracted (body) slips quietly into the brazier. (Read More...)Psalms 139:13 - 127:16 - For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother's womb. ((These reasons were all drawn from several sources: A debate over child sacrifice: https://phoenicia.org/childsacrifice.html; Brien K. Garnand, Lawrence E. Stager, Joseph A. Greene, “Infants as Offerings: Palaeodemographic Patterns and Tophet Burial,” Studi Epigrafici e Linguistici 29-30, 2012-13: 193-222; Lawrence E. Stager and Samuel R. Wolff, “Child Sacrifice at Carthage: Religious Rite or Population Control?” B_iblical Archaeology Review_ 10,1 (1984). Abraham is willing to sacrifice his only son, Isaac, as a burnt offering and to kill Isaac before burning him (Gen. 22:1-19). 2. The houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah—all the houses on whose roofs offerings have been offered to all the host of heaven, and drink offerings have been poured out to other gods—shall be defiled like the place of Topheth (Jere 19:12–13). Bible Verses About Prayer, Bible Verses About Children [As] I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will not be enquired of by you. The verses before Ezekiel 20:25-26 reiterates Yahweh’s warning that he would “scatter them among the nations and disperse them through the countries” (20:23-24). Join co-hosts Henry Smith and Scott Lanser as they discuss the sensitive and difficult subject of abortion. Bible Verses About Forgiveness Thou shalt not do so unto the LORD thy God: for every abomination to the LORD, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods. Baal was sometimes connected with Molech as a separate but related deity. Jephthah’s vow has also been debated for centuries about whether it even referred to human sacrifice rather than a life of religious celibacy (Judges 11:30). Lawrence Stager and Sam Wolff, archaeologists who had excavated the site described it this way: The Carthaginian Tophet is the largest of these Phoenician sites and indeed is the largest cemetery of sacrificed humans ever discovered. Romans 12:1-2 ESV / 341 helpful votes. Ezekiel’s recording of Yahweh’s strange statement about statutes and human sacrifice is surely the most difficult of the passages to address. Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils. Critical scholars have recently constructed revisionist theories to describe the Carthage Tophet as not being a location of child sacrifice but a cemetery for children who died of natural causes. It is one list of confusing contradictions against everything else written of God’s Law in the Old Testament. (Read More...)Psalms 127:3 - Lo, children [are] an heritage of the LORD: [and] the fruit of the womb [is his] reward.Jeremiah 7:31 - And they have built the high places of Tophet, which [is] in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded [them] not, neither came it into my heart.Ezekiel 16:36-38 - Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thy filthiness was poured out, and thy nakedness discovered through thy whoredoms with thy lovers, and with all the idols of thy abominations, and by the blood of thy children, which thou didst give unto them; (Read More...)Ezekiel 20:31 - For when ye offer your gifts, when ye make your sons to pass through the fire, ye pollute yourselves with all your idols, even unto this day: and shall I be enquired of by you, O house of Israel? Such hypotheticals of testing are more reflective of a contrast with the Canaanite culture than an accommodation of it. Bible Verses About Hope, Bible Verses About Divorce And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through [the fire] to Molech, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I [am] the LORD. Traditionally, Moloch has been understood as referring to a Canaanite god.However, since 1935 scholars have debated whether the term … He is spoken of as being present in Molech’s accursed Valley of Hinnom. Molech was even referred to as the “god of child sacrifice” by some. The context of the passage solves the problem of misinterpretation. Your lamb shall be without blemish.Natural piety would teach that "the blind, the lame, and the sick" should not be selected for sacrifice (Malachi 1:8).The Law afterwards expressly forbade any blemished animals - "blind, or broken, or maimed, or having a wen, or scurvy, or scabbed" - to be offered for any of the stated sacrifices, though they might be given as free-will … Canaan is the all-encompassing term for the land which was in modern-day Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, and Israel. See What He Did by chinedumoooo : 11:09am On Nov 22 , 2018 May Almighty God save him.he has committ something abominable. Of course, this was forbidden by God’s word: Lev. Yahweh’s command to Abraham is one of the most debated passages in the Bible. And thus Gehenna (the Valley of Slaughter) became the symbol of God’s judgment upon those who violated his commands. Bible Verses About Love In The Holy Bible, the Book of Leviticus even forbids this practice. In it, Yahweh is referencing the disobedience of Israel toward him in the wilderness. Animal sacrifices were no longer needed after Jesus gave his own life as a perfect sacrifice, though Christians continue to offer spiritual sacrifices to God. For the children of Judah have done evil in my sight, saith the LORD: they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to pollute it. ... Sarah had a baby boy named Isaac. The Lord provides a ram for the sacrifice. ((Smith, Jr., “Canaanite Child Sacrifice,” 93.)). “Safe, legal, and rare” has resulted in a universal sacrament. As we read of this abomination in Scripture, the so-called “civilized West” would claim that such vile behavior as child sacrifice should not be tolerated. One of the worst, though, has to be the ancient Canaanites. God wanted to know if Abraham would obey him. Yahweh says that he will turn Jerusalem itself into a Tophet of burning destruction like a sacrifice to him because of their use of the Tophet and worship of the host of heaven. An uncovered jar holds the remains of a 6,000 year-old baby. The Greek writer Homer told how the mighty sky god Zeus cast thunderbolts on the earth and tumbled the walls of Troy with his earthquakes. There stands in their midst a bronze statue of Kronos [Baal], its hands extended over a bronze brazier, the flames of which engulf the child. 18:21; 20:2-4; 1 Kings 11:7; 2 Kings 23:10; Jer. Thus it is that the “grin’ is known as “sardonic laughter,” since they die laughing.” ((Kleitarchos, Scholia to Plato’s Republic, 337A: Quoted in Paul G. Mosca, Child Sacrifice in Canaanite and Israelite Religion: A study in Mulk, PhD Thesis, (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University, 1975), 22.)). And the context of the passage is about Israel being given over to pagan control as punishment for her disobedience. History is filled with barbaric cultures. ((Garnand, Stager and. They built the high places of Baal in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, to offer up their sons and daughters to Molech (Jer. Molech worship was practiced by the Ammonites and Canaanites, who revered Molech as a protecting father figure. The Tophet (also called Topheth) was the altar upon which children were burned in sacrifice to the deity. Child sacrifice was integrated into the Phoenician culture and the Israelite and Judahite cultures in a deeply affecting way. [Is this] of thy whoredoms a small matter. This false deity is associated with Ammon in 1 Kings 11:7, “Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the detestable idol of Moab, on the mountain which is east of Jerusalem, and for Molech the detestable idol of the … Thus will I do to this place, declares the Lord, and to its inhabitants, making this city like Topheth. But this doesn’t really fit the facts. Is it proof of child sacrifice? Quoted in Smith, Jr., “Canaanite Child Sacrifice,” 98. The story merely describes what happened. 23:10; Jer. Bible Verses About Grace Abraham shows his obedience to the Lord, but an angel tells him to stop. True believers in child sacrifice who were mothers of that ancient time considered it difficult but necessary to sacrifice their babies, just as true believers in abortion today will admit the difficulty of their act while demanding it a necessary right to sacrifice their babies. In Psalm 106:35–38, we read the following: But they mingled with the Gentiles and learned their works; they served their idols, which became a snare to them. Most of the animal was eaten, divided between the priests and the offerer. -Thomas Paine. Most readers of the Bible do not find it controversial that human sacrifice was performed in the ancient world and that it was prohibited by the God of the Hebrews. Moloch, the ancient pagan God of child sacrifice. Therefore the Lord was very angry with Israel and removed them out of his sight (2 Kings 17:17–18). There shall not be found among you [any one] that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, [or] that useth divination, [or] an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch. The people of the land shall stone him with stones. Finally, burial urns of charred animal bones that are sacrificial substitutions are found interspersed with the children’s urns, something that would only make sense in terms of sacrificial rites. 18:21 says, “Neither shall you give any of your offspring to offer them to Molech, nor shall you profane the name of your God; I am the Lord.” (See also Lev. )), Some have suggested that animal substitution evolved out of human sacrifice, but the later levels of Carthage show an increase in human sacrifice in later years, not a decrease, thus disproving the evolutionary theory. Recent critical scholarship has tried to argue that Yahweh himself actually commanded and accepted human sacrifice from Israelites and only later did post-exilic agenda-driven authors write propaganda into the Bible to try to discredit this “once-acceptable sacrifice.” This is an attempt to reduce Hebrew Yahwism down to evolving Canaanite religion rather than revelation from heaven. As such, it is a form of human sacrifice. I have recently done some research on child sacrifice in the Bible for the sake of a novel I am writing about Queen Jezebel and ancient Israel in the ninth-century B.C. Moreover, I gave them statutes that were not good and rules by which they could not have life, and I defiled them through their very gifts in their offering up all their firstborn, that I might devastate them. Judah was guilty of child sacrifice from the days of Solomon up to the Babylonian exile: [Judahites] have built the high places of Baal to burn their sons in the fire as burnt offerings to Baal, which I did not command or decree, nor did it come into my mind— (Jeremiah 19:5). See more ideas about childrens bible, bible lessons, bible crafts. The revisionists say no. Child sacrifice was one of the abominable behaviors of Canaanites that was repeatedly condemned by Yahweh (Deut. That is the definition of legally sound corroborating eyewitnesses. Bible Verses About Marriage Bible Verses About Wives Child sacrifice is thought to be an extreme extension of the idea that, the more important the object of sacrifice, the more devout the person giving it up is. Molech was even referred to as the “god of child sacrifice” by some. These burnt sacrifices were made to Tanit and Baal-Hammon, the patron goddess and god of Carthage. Moloch (also Molech or Molek) is a name or term that appears several times in the Hebrew Bible, primarily in the book of Leviticus.The Bible strongly condemns practices associated with Moloch, which appear to have included child sacrifice.. Is it proof of child sacrifice… Starting with Abel, humans offered various voluntary sacrifices, including animals, until the Mosaic Law covenant made them a requirement. Bible Verses About Strength An uncovered jar holds the remains of a 6,000 year-old baby. 16:20-21; 20:31.) )), “No, but with full knowledge and understanding they themselves offered up their own children, and those who had no children would buy little ones from poor people and cut their throats as if they were so many lambs or young birds; meanwhile the mother stood by without a tear or moan; but should she utter a single moan or let fall a single tear, she had to forfeit the money, and her child was sacrificed nevertheless; and the whole area before the statue was filled with a loud noise of flutes and drums [so that] the cries of wailing should not reach the ears of the people.” ((Plutarch, On Superstition, Loeb Classical Library, 1928, 2:495. Your lamb shall be without blemish.Natural piety would teach that "the blind, the lame, and the sick" should not be selected for sacrifice (Malachi 1:8).The Law afterwards expressly forbade any blemished animals - "blind, or broken, or maimed, or having a wen, or scurvy, or scabbed" - to be offered for any of the stated sacrifices, though they might be given as free-will … ((Smith, Jr., “Canaanite Child Sacrifice,” 99-100.)). Under the influence of his wife, Jezebel, Ahab built altars to Baal. Stager, Wolff, and Greene debunk this skepticism by explaining several aspects that mitigate such revisionary speculation. to be, at the minimum, between 54,000 and 64,000 square feet. 7:31). So they didn’t condemn the killing of infants—because they practiced it. An argument from silence is not an argument for anything. Bible Verses About Death ((About Molech and Baal as separate deities see John Day, Molech: A God Of Human Sacrifice In The Old Testament (New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1989), 34-36. We hear for example that Josiah defiled a religious sanctuary in the valley of Hinnom because he believed that girls and boys had been sacrificed there (2 Kings 23:10). Yahweh is not shown to approve of it any more than he is shown to condemn it. Bible verses about Child Sacrifice. )), Second, none of the remains of the infants show the pathological condition of the disease. It wouldn’t make sense that Yahweh here would say the opposite of everything he has said throughout the Old Testament about his Law. Recent scientific studies may have resolved the question. (Read More...)2 Kings 17:17-18 - And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger. … for they will bury in Topheth, because there is no room elsewhere. Sacrifices were offered in the ante-diluvian age. It is a common misunderstanding to caricature Gehenna as a garbage dump. Everywhere the word appears in the Old Testament, it is always used in connection with the Valley of Hinnom and therefore with Molech as well. 12:31; also, 2 Kings 17:17; Jer.7:31; 19:5; Ezek. Each level consists of urns that contain the charred bones of children, both boys and girls, from newborn to three-years-old, mixed in with charred bones of goats and sheep. )), Critical scholars have recently sought to discredit or diminish the descriptions of Phoenician child sacrifice in both biblical and classical historians by complaining of prejudice in the authors who describe the sacrifices. ((Stager and Wolff, “Child Sacrifice at Carthage,” 6.)) The Bible strongly condemns practices associated with Moloch, which appear to have included child sacrifice. Bible Verses About Trust Earlier dates are below the water level and not accessible. 19:5:). 18:21; 20:2-5; 2 Kings. Brian Godawa is the best-selling biblical fiction author of the new novel series of spiritual war in the Bible, Chronicles of the Watchers. Unfortunately, Israelites were guilty of breaking this command of God almost immediately upon entering the Promised Land. But at the end of the day, the text gives no moral judgment of Jephthah’s behavior from God’s perspective. Fourth-century BC Greek author Kleitarchos (paraphrased): “Kleitarchos says that out of reverence for Kronos [the Greek equivalent of Ba’al Hammon], the Phoenicians, and especially the Carthaginians, whenever they seek to obtain some great favor, vow one of their children, burning it as a sacrifice to the deity if they are especially eager to gain success. Among the many accusations that the prophets of the Hebrew Bible level at their contemporaries, child sacrifice certainly ranks among the most egregious. They suggest several key passages to support this contention: (1) Yahweh’s command to Abraham to sacrifice his son (Gen. 22), (2) Jephthah’s vow to sacrifice his own daughter (Judges 11:29-40), and 3) Yahweh’s explicit statement that he had previously commanded human sacrifice in Ezekiel 20:25. 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