Jeremiah 32:35 meaning and explanation

They have built the high places of Baal in the Valley of Hinnom to make their sons and daughters pass through the fire to Molech—something I never commanded them, nor had it ever entered My mind, that they should commit such an abomination and cause Judah to sin.

Jeremiah 32:35, Berean Standard Bible

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In this verse God, speaking through Jeremiah, lists the sins that brought judgment on Jerusalem. The Valley of Hinnom lay just outside the city, and there Judah had built high places for Baal and burned their own children as offerings to Molech, a god of the Ammonites.

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