"There is no limit to depravity when one denies worship of the true God.
And they
--left all the commandments of the Lord their God,
--and made them molten images, even two calves,
--and served Baal.
--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.
2 Kings 17:16, 17
“....With great pomp and ceremony they performed their idol worship.
They erected altars to the honor of their gods, and they required even their own children to pass through the fire.
After they had erected their altars they required their children to leap over the altars through the fire.
If they could do this without their being burned, the idol priests and people received it as an evidence that their god accepted their offerings, and favored especially the person who passed through the fiery ordeal.
If another person who leaped through the fire was so unfortunate as to be burned, then his fate was fixed; for they thought that their gods were angry, and would be appeased with nothing short of the unhappy victim’s life, and he was offered up as a sacrifice upon their idol altars."
E.G.W./StepsToLife
And they
--left all the commandments of the Lord their God,
--and made them molten images, even two calves,
and made a grove,
--and worshiped all the host of heaven, --and served Baal.
--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.
2 Kings 17:16, 17
“....With great pomp and ceremony they performed their idol worship.
They erected altars to the honor of their gods, and they required even their own children to pass through the fire.
After they had erected their altars they required their children to leap over the altars through the fire.
If they could do this without their being burned, the idol priests and people received it as an evidence that their god accepted their offerings, and favored especially the person who passed through the fiery ordeal.
If another person who leaped through the fire was so unfortunate as to be burned, then his fate was fixed; for they thought that their gods were angry, and would be appeased with nothing short of the unhappy victim’s life, and he was offered up as a sacrifice upon their idol altars."
E.G.W./StepsToLife
