Jeremías 19:5

5 Han construido santuarios paganos en honor de Baal, para quemar a sus hijos en el fuego como holocaustos a Baal, cosa que yo jamás les ordené ni mencioné, ni jamás me pasó por la mente.

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 habitantes de Jerusalén, escuchen la palabra del SEÑOR. Así dice el SEÑORTodopoderoso, el Dios de Israel: ‘Haré venir tal calamidad sobre este lugar, que a todo el que se entere le zumbarán los oídos.

4 Porque ellos me han abandonado. Han profanado este lugar, quemando en él incienso a otros dioses que no conocían ni ellos ni sus antepasados ni los reyes de Judá. Además, han llenado de sangre inocente este lugar.

5 Han construido santuarios paganos en honor de Baal, para quemar a sus hijos en el fuego como holocaustos a Baal, cosa que yo jamás les ordené ni mencioné, ni jamás me pasó por la mente.

6 Por eso vendrán días en que este lugar ya no se llamará Tofet, ni Valle de Ben Hinón, sino Valle de la Matanza —afirma el SEÑOR—.

7 En este lugar anularé los planes de Judá y de Jerusalén, y los haré caer a filo de espada delante de sus enemigos, es decir, a manos de los que atentan contra su vida, y dejaré sus cadáveres a las aves del cielo y a las bestias de la tierra, para que les sirvan de comida.