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THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET
EZEKIEL
CHAPTER 20
  26 And I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused to pass athrough the bfire all that openeth the womb, that I might make them desolate, to the cend that they might dknow that I am the Lord.

Footnotes
26a
IE as burnt sacrifices to Moloch.
b
2 Kgs. 21: 6.
  6 And he made his son pass through the afire, and observed times, and used benchantments, and dealt with cfamiliar spirits and wizards: he wrought much wickedness in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to anger.
2 Chr. 28: 3.
  3 Moreover he burnt incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and burnt his children in the afire, after the abominations of the heathen whom the Lord had cast out before the children of Israel.
2 Chr. 33: 6.
  6 And he caused his children to pass through the afire in the valley of the son of Hinnom: also he bobserved times, and used enchantments, and used cwitchcraft, and ddealt with a efamiliar spirit, and with wizards: he wrought much evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to anger.
c
Hel. 12: 3.
  3 And thus we see that except the Lord doth achasten his people with many afflictions, yea, except he doth visit them with bdeath and with terror, and with famine and with all manner of pestilence, they will not cremember him.
d