Child Sacrifice: Returning God’s Gift — Barren women give birth to exceptional children By Susan Ackerman. Includes a table titled: Six Barren Women and Their Sons: A Recurring Pattern of Promise, Birth and Danger
Infants Sacrificed? The Tale Teeth Tell by Patricia Smith . The seventh–sixth century prophet Jeremiah famously fulminated against Judahites who sacrificed their children to Moloch in Jerusalem’s Ben Hinnom Valley (Jeremiah 32:35). The author of Leviticus also forbade the practice (Leviticus 18:21), indicating that he too believed that infant sacrifice to foreign gods was indeed occurring. According to 2 Chronicles 28:3, even King Ahaz engaged in the practice; in the valley of Ben-Hinnom, “He [Ahaz] burned his sons in fire, in the abhorrent fashion of the nations the Lord had dispossessed before the Israelites.”
