And I polluted them in their own (m) gifts, in that they caused to pass through [the fire] all the firstborn, that I might make them desolate, to the end that they might know that I [am] the LORD.
(m) I condemned those things, and counted them as abominable, which they thought had been excellent and to have declared most zeal, (Luke 16:15) for that which God required as most excellent they gave to their idols.