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  • From: Polycarp66 AT aol.com
  • To: dstabno AT lifeway.com, b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
  • Subject: Re: The daughter of Jeftah died?
  • Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2002 19:37:25 EDT

In a message dated 6/3/2002 5:43:21 PM Eastern Daylight Time, dstabno AT lifeway.com writes:



"THere is one child sacrifice story in Genesis, there is another in Kings
(which gets mentioned in Joshua) and there is Ezekial's comment (I think
chapter 22 but I don't have any texts before me) quoting Yahwah as saying
that he gave bad laws
to Israel by commanding them to sacrifice their first-born."


You can find 4 instances in the books of Kings which point to individual kings who were said to have practiced child sacrifice:

2 Kgs. 16.3   Ahaz
2 Kgs. 17.17 Hoshea (somewhat by implication)
2 Kgs. 21.6   Manasseh
2 Kgs. 23.10  Amon (by implication)

2 Chron. reiterates 2 instances.

gfsomsel



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