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.
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Gill's Exposition
And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire,.... To Baal or Moloch, which were the same, and represented the sun, which, as the above writer observes, presides in the…
Adam Clarke
Sold themselves to do evil - Abandoned themselves to the will of the devil, to work all iniquity with greediness.
Though the destruction of the kingdom of the ten tribes was but briefly related, it is in these verses largely commented upon by our historian, and the reasons of it assigned, not taken from the…
Cambridge Bible
to pass through the fire Of the character of this Moloch-worship, see above 2Ki 16:3, note.
used divination and enchantments The former word probably refers to some way of seeking out guidance by…
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