Jeremiah 19:5
They have built also the high places of Baal, to burn their sons with fire for burnt offerings unto Baal, which I commanded not, nor spake it, neither came it into my mind:
Cross-reference
Jeremiah 32:35 repeats nearly verbatim this accusation, specifically naming Molech as the recipient of the sacrifices.
Jeremiah 7:32 prophesies judgment on the same location (Topheth), renaming it the Valley of Slaughter as a consequence.
Jeremiah 7:31 says almost the same thing: building Topheth to burn children in fire — a near-verbatim parallel within Jeremiah.
Jeremiah 11:13 describes altars to Baal in every town — directly parallels the high places of Baal in Jeremiah 19:5.
Leviticus 18:21 explicitly forbids giving children to Molech — the very law this verse describes being broken.
Ezekiel 20:26 reveals that God allowed this defilement through offering firstborn as a judgment, showing a darker divine purpose.
Ezekiel 16:21 directly parallels the language of offering children by fire, intensifying the accusation against Israel.
Ezekiel 16:20 uses the same imagery of sacrificing children to idols, depicting Israel's unfaithfulness as spiritual adultery.
Psalm 106:38 adds that this sacrifice shed innocent blood and polluted the land, reinforcing the gravity of the act.
Psalm 106:37 describes sacrificing sons and daughters to demons, echoing the same idolatrous child sacrifice denounced here.
2 Chronicles 28:3 records Ahaz actually burning his sons, providing a historical example of the same child sacrifice condemned here.
2 Kings 17:31 records foreigners burning their children as sacrifices — the same abomination that Israel adopted, as condemned here.
Deuteronomy 12:31 explicitly forbids burning sons and daughters as sacrifices — the very practice denounced here as something God never commanded.
In Genesis 22:12, God stops Abraham from sacrificing Isaac — showing He commanded a test but not actual child sacrifice, contrasting with Jeremiah's claim.
Ezekiel 20:31 explicitly mentions sacrificing children in fire to idols — identical practice condemned in Jeremiah.
Micah 6:7 rhetorically asks if God wants child sacrifice — implies God rejects it, aligning with Jeremiah's condemnation.
Romans 11:4 cites the faithful remnant who did not bow to Baal — contrasts with the widespread Baal worship in Jeremiah.