Cross references

Jeremiah 7:31

They have built the high places of Topheth in the Valley of Ben-hinnom so they could burn their sons and daughters in the fire—something I never commanded, nor did it even enter My mind.

Jeremiah 7:31 BSB

Jeremiah 7:31 has 15 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 11 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to 2 Kings 23:10 (7 votes) and Leviticus 18:21 (6 votes). 27 other verses point back to it. It links with 10 other books, from Leviticus 10 to Micah 6.

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Which verses does Jeremiah 7:31 point to?

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  1. He also desecrated Topheth in the Valley of Ben-hinnom so that no one could sacrifice his son or daughter in the fire to Molech.

  2. You must not give any of your children to be sacrificed to Molech, for you must not profane the name of your God. I am the LORD.

  3. They sacrificed their sons and daughters in the fire and practiced divination and soothsaying. They devoted themselves to doing evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking Him to anger.

  4. They have built the high places of Baal in the Valley of Ben-hinnom to make their sons and daughters pass through the fire to Molech—something I never commanded them, nor had it ever entered My mind, that they should commit such an abomination and cause Judah to sin.

  5. Then the LORD said to Moses, “Tell the Israelites, ‘Any Israelite or foreigner living in Israel who gives any of his children to Molech must be put to death. The people of the land are to stone him. …

  6. You must not worship the LORD your God in this way, because they practice for their gods every abomination which the LORD hates. They even burn their sons and daughters in the fire as sacrifices to their gods.

  7. Moreover, Ahaz burned incense in the Valley of Ben-hinnom and sacrificed his sons in the fire, according to the abominations of the nations that the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.

  8. They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons. They shed innocent blood—the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan, and the land was polluted with blood.

  9. They have built high places to Baal on which to burn their children in the fire as offerings to Baal—something I never commanded or mentioned, nor did it even enter My mind. So behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when this place will no longer be called Topheth or the Valley of Ben-hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter.

  10. You even took the sons and daughters you bore to Me and sacrificed them as food to idols. Was your prostitution not enough?

Which verses point to Jeremiah 7:31?

The 10 strongest of 27.