Here are 13 Bible verses about fathers killing children, curated from both the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, King James Version, arranged from most to least relevant.
Psalm 106:37 KJV
37 Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils,
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2 Chronicles 33:6 KJV
6 And he caused his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom: also he observed times, and used enchantments, and used witchcraft, and dealt with a familiar spirit, and with wizards: he wrought much evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to anger.
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Ezekiel 20:25-26 KJV
25 Wherefore I gave them also statutes that were not good, and judgments whereby they should not live; 26 And I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused to pass through the fire all that openeth the womb, that I might make them desolate, to the end that they might know that I am the Lord.
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Lamentations 4:10 KJV
10 The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
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Jeremiah 32:35 KJV
35 And they built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire unto Molech; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.
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Psalm 139:13-16 KJV
13 For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb. 14 I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well. 15 My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. 16 Thine eyes did see my substance, yet …
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Deuteronomy 28:53 KJV
53 And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters, which the Lord thy God hath given thee, in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee:
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Deuteronomy 18:10-12 KJV
10 There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch. 11 Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer. 12 For all that do these things are an abomination unto the Lord: and because of these abominations the Lord thy God doth …
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Deuteronomy 12:31 KJV
31 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.
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Leviticus 18:21 KJV
21 And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through the fire to Molech, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the Lord.
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Genesis 9:6 KJV
6 Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.
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Psalm 27:10 KJV
10 When my father and my mother forsake me, then the Lord will take me up.
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John 15:5 KJV
5 I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.
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