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question: How many Hebrew kings offered their own children
as burnt sacrifices?
answer: Two: Ahaz (2 Chronicles 28:3) and Manasseh (2
Kings 21:6).
“Ahaz was
twenty years old when he became king, and he reigned sixteen years in
Jerusalem; and he did not do what was right in the sight of the Lord, as
his father David had done. For he walked
in the ways of the kings of Israel, and made molded images for the Baals. He burned incense in the Valley of the Son
of Hinnom, and burned his children in the fire, according to the abominations
of the nations whom the Lord had cast out before the children of Israel. And he sacrificed and burned incense on the
high places, on the hills, and under every green tree” (2 Chronicles 28:1-4).
“Manasseh
was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned fifty-five years in
Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Hephzibah. And he did evil in the sight of the Lord,
according to the abominations of the nations whom the Lord had cast out before
the children of Israel. For he rebuilt
the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; he raised up altars
for Baal, and made a wooden image, as Ahab king of Israel had done; and he
worshiped all the host of heaven and served them. He also built altars in the house of the Lord,
of which the Lord had said, ‘In Jerusalem I will put My name.’ And he built altars for all the host of
heaven in the two courts of the house of the Lord. Also he made his son pass through the fire,
practiced soothsaying, used witchcraft, and consulted spiritists and mediums. He did much evil in the sight of the Lord, to
provoke Him to anger. He even set a
carved image of Asherah that he had made, in the house of which the Lord had
said to David and to Solomon his son, ‘In this house and in Jerusalem, which I
have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put My name forever; and I
will not make the feet of Israel wander anymore from the land which I gave
their fathers — only if they are careful to do according to all that I have
commanded them, and according to all the law that My servant Moses commanded
them.’ But they paid no attention, and Manasseh seduced them to do more evil
than the nations whom the Lord had destroyed before the children of Israel” (2
Kings 21:1-9).
~ Robert Lloyd Russell, ABUNDANT LIFE NOW
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