Jeremías 19:5

5 Han construido altares paganos a Baal y allí queman a sus hijos en sacrificio a Baal. Jamás ordené un acto tan horrendo; ¡ni siquiera me pasó por la mente ordenar semejante cosa!

Jeremías 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.

Jeremías 19:5 In-Context

3 Diles: “¡Reyes de Judá y ciudadanos de Jerusalén, escuchen este mensaje del Señor
! Esto dice el Señor
de los Ejércitos Celestiales, Dios de Israel: ‘¡Traeré un terrible desastre a este lugar, y a los que se enteren les zumbarán los oídos!

4 »’Pues Israel me ha abandonado y convirtió este valle en un lugar de maldad. La gente quema incienso a dioses ajenos, ídolos nunca antes conocidos por esta generación ni por sus antepasados ni por los reyes de Judá. Y han llenado este lugar de sangre de niños inocentes.

5 Han construido altares paganos a Baal y allí queman a sus hijos en sacrificio a Baal. Jamás ordené un acto tan horrendo; ¡ni siquiera me pasó por la mente ordenar semejante cosa!

6 Así que, ¡atención! Se acerca la hora —dice el Señor
—, cuando ese basurero ya no será llamado más Tofet ni valle de Ben-hinom, sino valle de la Matanza.

7 »’Trastornaré los planes cuidadosos de Judá y Jerusalén. Dejaré que los ejércitos invasores masacren a la gente y dejaré los cadáveres como comida para los buitres y los animales salvajes.