And they have built the high places of Tophet, which [is] in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded [them] not, neither came it into my heart.
Ver. 31. To burn their sons and their daughters.] Haply in a sinful imitation of Abraham or Jephthah; or else after the example of the Canaanites Deu 12:31 and other heathens, who thus sacrificed to the devil, commanding them so to do by his oracles, though Hercules taught the Italians to offer unto him rather men made of wax. a
a Macrob. Saturn., lib. vii.