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ABORTION RITES - Jesus is Savior

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goddess, Baals’ consort. 50 Their worship involved gross sexualimmorality and child sacrifice.While excavating near Samaria, the Oriental Institute ofChicago University d<strong>is</strong>covered the ruins of an ancient temple of thegoddess Ashtoreth in the stratum of the time of Ahab’s rule. “Just afew steps from th<strong>is</strong> temple was a cemetery, where many jars werefound, containing remains of infants who had been sacrificed inth<strong>is</strong> temple.” 51The book of Isaiah reveals child sacrifice was also practicedin the Southern Kingdom of Judah during the eight­century BCpeoplewere worshiping idols under trees and “slaying the childrenin the valleys” and under overhanging rocks. 52 So common was th<strong>is</strong>barbar<strong>is</strong>m, children were being sacrificed in valleys and under rocks,notice the plural. Child sacrifice was not circumscribed to just one501 Kings 18:19.51Henry H. Halley, Halley’s Bible Handbook, 24 th ed. (Grand Rapids:Zondervan Publ<strong>is</strong>hing House, 1965), 198.52Isa. 57:5.111

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