Verse 31 describes Sepharvites burning children in fire — the same pagan child sacrifice that Israel adopts in verse 17.

It shows that Judah's king Ahaz also committed the same sin of passing his son through fire.

In 2 Kings 21:6, Manasseh repeats the same sins: child sacrifice, divination, and enchantments.

2 Kings 23:10 records Josiah defiling Topheth to stop child sacrifice to Molech — directly targeting the sin described here.

Jeremiah 27:9 warns against listening to diviners and sorcerers — the same practitioners Israel embraced here.

Isaiah 50:1 echoes 'for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves' — linking Israel's self-sale to divine judgment.

Ezekiel 20:26 describes God permitting Israel to pass firstborns through fire as a judgment.

In Ezekiel 20:31, God rebukes Israel for continuing to make sons pass through fire, polluting themselves.

Isaiah 8:19 condemns consulting mediums and spiritists — the same divination practices described here.

Psalm 106:38 adds that this child sacrifice shed innocent blood and polluted the land.

Psalm 106:37 echoes the same sin, saying Israel sacrificed their sons and daughters to demons.

In 2 Chronicles 33:6, King Manasseh commits the same sins, showing this pattern of evil repeated by later kings.

In 2 Chronicles 28:3, Ahaz burns his children in the fire, paralleling Israel's sin in 2 Kings 17:17.

1 Kings 21:25 describes Ahab selling himself to wickedness — the same language used here for Israel's corporate rebellion.

In 1 Kings 21:20, Elijah uses the identical phrase 'sold thyself to work evil' — directly paralleling Israel's self-sale to evil here.

Deuteronomy 18:10-12 explicitly forbids these very practices — child sacrifice, divination, sorcery — making clear Israel's sin here is a direct violation of God's law.

Ezekiel 23:37 accuses Oholah and Oholibah of causing their sons to pass through fire to idols.

Ezekiel 23:39 says they slayed children to idols and then profaned the sanctuary on the same day.

Leviticus 18:21 is the law forbidding passing children through fire to Molech, which Israel violated.

Ezekiel 16:21 explicitly mentions sacrificing children to idols — strong parallel to the child sacrifice here.

Leviticus 19:26 forbids 'enchantment' — the same practice of divination and sorcery that Israel adopts here.

Jeremiah 19:5 also condemns child sacrifice to Baal — a strong parallel to the fire-passing ritual.

Jeremiah 7:31 directly condemns burning sons and daughters in fire — exact parallel to the child sacrifice here.

Leviticus 20:2 commands death for giving children to Molech — the very child sacrifice Israel commits by passing them through fire.

Leviticus 19:31 prohibits consulting familiar spirits and wizards — directly related to the divination and enchantments mentioned here.

Acts 16:16 features a slave girl with a spirit of divination — the same kind of divination condemned in the OT and practiced here.

Isaiah 47:12 mocks Babylon's reliance on spells and sorceries — exactly the enchantments Israel used here.

Micah 5:12 says God will cut off sorceries and fortune-tellers — the very things Israel indulged in here.

Isaiah 47:13 mentions astrologers and star-gazers — a form of divination like the enchantments practiced here.