Sacrificed Their Sons and Daughters?
Dear Lord, I pray for the wisdom for those who never want to make the mistake of serving idols. In Jesus’ name, amen.
King Ahaz was Hezekiah’s father.
2 Kings 16:2-3 (ESV) says,
“Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. And he did not do what was right in the eyes of the Lord his God, as his father David had done, but he walked in the way of the kings of Israel. He even burned his son as an offering, according to the despicable practices of the nations whom the Lord drove out before the people of Israel.” (See 2 Chronicles 28:1-4 for a similar account.)
Hezekiah’s bother was one of those sacrificed.
In Psalm 106:34-38 reminds of the horrors of human sacrifice.
“They did not destroy the peoples,
as the Lord commanded them,
but they mixed with the nations
and learned to do as they did.
They served their idols,
which became a snare to them.
They sacrificed their sons
and their daughters to the demons;
they poured out innocent blood,
the blood of their sons and daughters,
whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan,
and the land was polluted with blood.”
Scripture is full of stories of kings who served foreign gods. God’s word tells the truth about those who disobeyed him. Let this be instructive. If you or someone you know is worshiping idols, tell them how knowing God personally can give them new life.
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