Psalms 106:37 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³⁷Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils,

Psalms 106:37 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Kings 17:17
And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.
2 Kings 16:3
But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yea, and made his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel.
Jeremiah 7:31
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.
Deuteronomy 32:17
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 12:30-31
Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou enquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise. …

Topics

Adultery Demons Disease Familiar Spirits Gentiles Gods Groves Heathen

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 34-48)

Here, I. The narrative concludes with an account of Israel’s conduct in Canaan, which was of a piece with that in the wilderness, and God’s dealings with them, wherein, as all along, both justice and mercy appeared. 1. They were very provoking to God. The miracles and mercies which settled them in Canaan made no more deep and durable impressions upon them than those which fetched them out of Egypt…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 37)

34-39. They not only failed to expel the heathen, as God commanded--(Ex 23:32, 33), literally, “said (they should),” but conformed to their idolatries [Psa 106:36], and thus became spiritual adulterers (Psa 73:27).