Psalms 106:37
35 But were mingled among the heathen, and learned their works.
36 And they served their idols: which were a snare unto them.
Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils,
38 And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan: and the land was polluted with blood.
39 Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went a whoring with their own inventions.
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
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.
Read in context2 Kings 16:3
But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yea, and made his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel.
Read in contextJeremiah 7:31
And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my heart.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 32:17
They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not.
Read in contextEzekiel 23:37
That they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands, and with their idols have they committed adultery, and have also caused their sons, whom they bare unto me, to pass for them through the fire, to devour them.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 12:30–31
Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou enquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise.
Read in contextLeviticus 17:7
And they shall no more offer their sacrifices unto devils, after whom they have gone a whoring. This shall be a statute for ever unto them throughout their generations.
Read in contextJeremiah 32:35
And they built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire unto Molech; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.
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