Jeremiah 19:5 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

They have built also the high places of Baal, to burn their sons with fire for burnt offerings unto Baal, They have built also the high places of Baal, to burn their sons with fire for burnt offerings unto Baal, which I commanded not, nor spake it, neither came it into my mind:

They have built also the high places of Baal, to burn their sons with fire for burnt offerings unto Baal, which I commanded not - nay, more, I commanded the opposite (Leviticus 18:21; see Jeremiah 7:31-32).

Jeremiah 19:5

5 They have built also the high places of Baal, to burn their sons with fire for burnt offerings unto Baal, which I commanded not, nor spake it, neither came it into my mind: