That thou hast slain my children, and delivered them to cause them to pass through the fire for them?
The charge is aimed at some of the children of Israel who degraded themselves by adopting the idolatrous abomination learned from Egypt of causing their children to pass through fire. In practicing it they did not proceed to the full extremes reached by the heathen nations in that rite. Judgment met them in the very act, for the fire was caused to kindle upon their children and consume them as they were being led through, and by that destruction they were deprived of their children.
The charge is aimed at some of the children of Israel who degraded themselves by adopting the idolatrous abomination learned from Egypt of causing their children to pass through fire. In practicing it they did not proceed to the full extremes reached by the heathen nations in that rite. Judgment met them in the very act, for the fire was caused to kindle upon their children and consume them as they were being led through, and by that destruction they were deprived of their children.