Psalms 106:38

"Yes, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons."

Key Reflection

This verse illustrates a profound act of apostasy, where people turned away from serving the true God by offering their children as sacrifices to false gods or demons, symbolizing a deep spiritual rejection and a complete abandonment of divine worship for idolatrous practices. Such actions reveal the depths of human depravity and the willingness to forsake moral and religious obligations in pursuit of perceived supernatural powers.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

And shed innocent blood ... -The blood of those who had committed no crime; who did not “deserve” the treatment which they received. That is, they were sacrificed “as” innocent persons, and “because” it was believed that they “were” innocent: the pure for the impure; the holy for the unholy. It was on the general principle that a sacrifice for sin must be itself pure, or it could not be offered in the place of the guilty; that an offering made for one who had violated law must be by one who had “not” violated it. This was the principle on which “lambs” were offered in sacrifice.

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