What Does Psalm 106:37 Mean in the King James?
Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils,
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The Hebrew verb for “sacrificed” keeps slaughter inside the offering, so no sacred label can make the children disappear from the act.
THE MEANING
The verse keeps the children visible inside a word that can sound ritual and abstract. It exposes how devotion can call an act sacred while the act remains lethal.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The lie that a religious offering becomes good simply because it is called a sacrifice.
THE ROOT
וַיִּזְבְּחוּ
vayyizbeḥû
GROWS FROM
זבח
z-b-ḥ
To slaughter in sacrifice; to offer through ritual slaughter.
“sacrificed” in this verse is vayyizbeḥû. The זבח root carries slaughter into the act of offering. Its branches name both the sacrifice and the altar, keeping the violence visible within the ritual language.
ALSO GROWS
zebaḥ: Sacrifice or ritual slaughter.
זֶבַח
This noun shares the verb’s root and shows that the offering remains bound to the act of killing.
mizbēaḥ: Altar, the place of sacrifice.
מִזְבֵּחַ
The altar grows from the same root, joining the sacred place to the act performed there.
THE PATTERN
Scripture names the violence of child-offering plainly even when it appears under the language of worship.
Thou shalt not do so unto the LORD thy God: for every abomination to the LORD, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods.And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my heart.But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils.THE THREAD
They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not.Deuteronomy uses the same Hebrew verb זבח (zāvaḥ, sacrifice through slaughter) and the same word שֵׁדִים (shedim, devils). Its words “not to God” sharpen the distinction: the act is still called sacrifice, but its recipient reveals the loyalty it serves.
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