Child Sacrifice in Ancient Israel
By Heath D. Dewrell
鈥淔or the Judahites have done evil in my sight鈥濃攁n oracle of Yahweh鈥斺渢hey have set their abominations in the House over which my Name is invoked, defiling it. They build the shrines of the Topheth, which is in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire鈥攚hich I did not command, nor did it arise in my mind.鈥 (Jeremiah 7:30鈥31)
Among the many accusations that the prophets of the Hebrew Bible level at their contemporaries…[READ MORE]