“They have built the high places of Baal in the Valley of Ben-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.”
Jeremiah 32:35 (BSB)
Context Reading
33They have turned their backs to Me and not their faces. Though I taught them again and again, they would not listen or respond to discipline. 34They have placed their abominations in the house that bears My Name, and so have defiled it. 35They have built the high places of Baal in the Valley of Ben-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. 36Now therefore, about this city of which you say, ‘It will be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon by sword and famine and plague,’ this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: 37I will surely gather My people from all the lands to which I have banished them in My furious anger and great wrath, and I will return them to this place and make them dwell in safety.