and have built the (A)high places of Baal to burn their (B)sons in the fire as burnt offerings to Baal, a thing which I did not command nor speak of, nor did it ever enter My [a]mind;

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  1. Jeremiah 19:5 Lit heart

They have built the high places of Baal to burn their children(A) in the fire as offerings to Baal—something I did not command or mention, nor did it enter my mind.(B)

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31 And [a]when you offer your gifts, when you (A)make your sons pass through the fire, you are defiling yourselves with all your idols to this day. So shall I be inquired of by you, house of Israel? As I live,” declares the Lord God, “I certainly will not be inquired of by you.

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  1. Ezekiel 20:31 Lit in your lifting up

31 When you offer your gifts—the sacrifice of your children(A) in the fire—you continue to defile yourselves with all your idols to this day. Am I to let you inquire of me, you Israelites? As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign Lord, I will not let you inquire of me.(B)

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37 For they have committed adultery, and blood is on their hands. So they have committed adultery with their idols, and even made their sons, (A)whom they bore to Me, pass through the fire to [a]them as food.

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  1. Ezekiel 23:37 I.e., the idols

37 for they have committed adultery and blood is on their hands. They committed adultery with their idols; they even sacrificed their children, whom they bore to me, as food for them.(A)

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