พระบัญญัติ 12:31

Thai King James Bible

ท่านอย่ากระทำอย่างนั้นแด่พระเยโฮวาห์พระเจ้าของท่านทั้งหลาย เพราะว่าสิ่งที่น่าสะอิดสะเอียนทุกอย่างซึ่งพระเยโฮวาห์ทรงเกลียดชัง พวกเขากระทำสิ่งนั้นต่อพระทั้งหลายของเขา แม้แต่บุตรชายและบุตรสาวของเขา เขาก็เผาด้วยไฟบูชาแด่พระของเขา

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Thou: Deuteronomy 12:4, Deuteronomy 18:9, Exodus 23:2, Leviticus 18:3, Leviticus 18:26-30, 2 Kings 17:15-17, 2 Kings 21:2, 2 Chronicles 33:2, 2 Chronicles 36:14

abomination to the: Heb. abomination of the

even their sons: The unnatural and horrid practice of offering human sacrifices not only existed, but universally prevailed among ancient nations. We have already - See note on Leviticus 20:2 referred to the custom among the Phoenicians and Carthaginians, descendants from the Canaanitish nations, of sacrificing their children to Moloch, or Saturn; and we will now cite a passage from Diodorus Siculus - lib. xx. which immediately precedes that already produced relative to this barbarous custom. He states that the Carthaginians imputed their being besieged by Agathocles to the anger of Saturn, because, instead of sacrificing the best of their own children, as formerly, they had sacrificed children bought for that purpose. "In haste, therefore, to rectify their errors, they chose 200 of the noblest children, and publicly sacrificed them! Others, accused of irreligion, voluntarily gave themselves up, to the number of no less than 300!" Deuteronomy 18:10, Leviticus 18:21, Leviticus 20:2, Jeremiah 7:31, Jeremiah 32:35, Ezekiel 20:31, Ezekiel 23:27, Micah 6:7

Reciprocal: Exodus 8:26 - we shall Exodus 23:24 - do after Leviticus 18:24 - for Leviticus 20:23 - in the manners Numbers 33:52 - General Deuteronomy 7:16 - for that will Deuteronomy 9:4 - for the wickedness Deuteronomy 16:22 - which Deuteronomy 20:18 - General Judges 11:39 - did with 1 Kings 21:26 - according to 2 Kings 3:27 - offered him 2 Kings 16:3 - made his son 2 Kings 17:8 - walked 2 Kings 17:31 - burnt their children 2 Chronicles 28:3 - after the abominations 2 Chronicles 33:6 - caused Ezra 9:1 - doing according Ezra 9:11 - The land Psalms 53:1 - have done Psalms 74:20 - the dark Psalms 106:37 - they sacrificed Jeremiah 10:2 - Learn Jeremiah 19:5 - to burn Ezekiel 11:12 - but Ezekiel 16:45 - that loatheth Ezekiel 23:37 - have also 1 Peter 4:3 - to have

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Thou shalt not do so unto the Lord thy God,.... Not serve and worship him after the manner of the Gentiles, nor introduce their rites and customs into his service, used by them in the worship of their gods:

for every abomination which he hateth have they done unto their gods; as murder, adultery, c. which God has expressed his aversion to, and indignation at one instance of the former sort is given here:

for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods; not only men have they sacrificed to them, but such near relations; and not only caused them to pass through the fire, but burnt them in it; so the Carthaginians are said to do, who learned this inhuman practice from the Phoenicians; they were a colony of the inhabitants of this land of Canaan. Of the Phoenicians Porphyry says i, that in great calamities, as war or pestilence, they sacrificed to Saturn some one of those that were dearest to them, appointed by suffrage. The Phoenician history, adds he, is full of such sacrifices, which Sanchoniatho wrote in the Phoenician language; and Curtius says k, this custom of sacrificing a fine boy to Saturn was received by the Carthaginians from their founders (the Tyrians and Phoenicians), and which they continued even to the destruction of their city.

i De Abstinentia, l. 2. sect. 56. k Hist. l. 4. c. 3.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Deuteronomy 12:31. Their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire — Almost all the nations in the world agreed in offering human victims to their gods on extraordinary occasions, by which it is evident that none of those nations had any right notion of the Divine nature. How necessary, then, was the volume of revelation, to teach men what that religion is with which God can be well pleased! The Hindoos to this day offer human victims to their goddess Cali, and at the temple of Jaggernaut; and yet, notwithstanding this, there are found certain persons who, while they profess Christianity, are absolutely unwilling to send the Hindoos the Gospel of Christ, because they think it would not be politically wise! But the wisdom of this world has ever been foolishness with God; and in spite of all this infidel policy, the word of the Lord shall have free course and be glorified.