37–38. Yea, they sacrificed their sons and daughters unto devils. This was being snared indeed; they were spell-bound by the cruel
superstition, and were carried so far as even to become murderers of their own
children, in honor of the most detestable deities, which were rather devils
than gods. And shed innocent blood. The poor little ones whom they put
to death in sacrifice had not been partakers of their sin, and God looked with
the utmost indignation upon the murder of the innocent. Even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan. Who knows how far evil will go? It drove men to be unnatural as
well as ungodly. Had they but thought for a moment, they must have seen that a
deity who could be pleased with the blood of babes split by their own parents
could not be a deity at all, but must be a demon, worthy to be detested and not
adored. How could they prefer such service to that of Jehovah? And the land was polluted with blood. The promised land, the holy land, which was the
glory of all lands, for God was there, was defiled with the reeking gore of
innocent babes, and by the blood-red hands of their parents, who slew them in
order to pay homage to devils.
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