Jeremias 19:5

5 E edificaram os altos de Baal, para queimarem seus filhos no fogo em holocaustos a Baal; o que nunca lhes ordenei, nem falei, nem entrou no meu pensamento.

Jeremias 19:5 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 19:5

They have also built the high places of Baal
Or, they have even built and so the words explain what is before suggested of their idolatry; these were the temples in which they placed his image, and the altars on which they sacrificed to him; as follows: to burn their sons with fire, [for] burnt offerings unto Baal;
the same idol that is sometimes called Moloch, the names being much of the same signification; the one signifying a "lord" or "master"; the other a king; and to the idol under each name they burned their children with fire, and offered them as burnt offerings unto it; which was a most cruel and barbarous way of sacrificing. Some think they only caused them to pass through two fires; but the text is express for it, that they burnt them with fire, and made burnt offerings of them, as they did with slain beasts. It seems very likely that they did both: which I commanded not;
in my law, as the Targum adds; and which was intimation enough to avoid it; though this was not all, he expressly forbad it, ( Leviticus 20:2-5 ) ; nor spake [it], neither came [it] into my mind;
and it is marvellous it should ever enter into the heart of man; none but Satan himself could ever have devised such a way of worship.

Jeremias 19:5 In-Context

3 e dirás: Ouvi a palavra do Senhor, ó reis de Judá, e moradores de Jerusalém. Assim diz o Senhor dos exércitos, o Deus de Israel: Eis que trarei sobre este lugar uma calamidade tal que fará retinir os ouvidos de quem quer que dela ouvir.

4 Porquanto me deixaram, e profanaram este lugar, queimando nele incenso a outros deuses, que nunca conheceram, nem eles nem seus pais, nem os reis de Judá; e encheram este lugar de sangue de inocentes.

5 E edificaram os altos de Baal, para queimarem seus filhos no fogo em holocaustos a Baal; o que nunca lhes ordenei, nem falei, nem entrou no meu pensamento.

6 Por isso eis que dias vêm, diz o Senhor, em que este lugar não se chamara mais Tofete, nem o vale do filho de Hinom, mas o vale da matança.

7 E tornarei vão o conselho de Judá e de Jerusalém neste lugar, e os farei cair � espada diante de seus inimigos e pela mão dos que procuram tirar-lhes a vida. Darei os seus cadaveres por pasto as aves do céu e aos animais da terra.