Psalms 106:37
35 but they mingled with the nations and adopted their customs.
36 They worshiped their idols, which became a snare to them.
They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons.
38 They shed innocent blood— the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan, and the land was polluted with blood.
39 They defiled themselves by their actions and prostituted themselves by their deeds.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons.
- KJV
- Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils,
- WEB
- Yes, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons.
- ASV
- Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto demons,
- DARBY
- And they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto demons,
- BLB
- And they sacrificed their sons and their daughters to the demons;
- ÅB
- og de ofret sine sønner og sine døtre til maktene[^4].
- OTB
- De ofret til og med sine sønner og sine døtre til demonene,
- B1930
- og de ofret sine sønner og sine døtre til maktene. / < d.e. avgudene.>
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
2 Kings 17:17
They sacrificed their sons and daughters in the fire and practiced divination and soothsaying. They devoted themselves to doing evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking Him to anger.
Read in context2 Kings 16:3
Instead, he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel and even sacrificed his son in the fire, according to the abominations of the nations that the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.
Read in contextJeremiah 7:31
They have built the high places of Topheth in the Valley of Hinnom so they could burn their sons and daughters in the fire—something I never commanded, nor did it even enter My mind.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 32:17
They sacrificed to demons, not to God, to gods they had not known, to newly arrived gods, which your fathers did not fear.
Read in contextEzekiel 23:37
For they have committed adultery, and blood is on their hands. They have committed adultery with their idols. They have even sacrificed their children, whom they bore to Me, in the fire as food for their idols.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 12:30–31
be careful not to be ensnared by their ways after they have been destroyed before you. Do not inquire about their gods, asking, “How do these nations serve their gods? I will do likewise.”
Read in contextLeviticus 17:7
They must no longer offer their sacrifices to the goat demons to which they have prostituted themselves. This will be a permanent statute for them for the generations to come.’
Read in contextJeremiah 32:35
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.
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