King James Version
Psalms 106:37 in the King James Version says “Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils,” — study this verse from Psalms chapter 106 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils,”
Psalms 106:37 · KJV
But were mingled among the heathen, and learned their works.
And they served their idols: which were a snare unto them.
Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils,
And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan: and the land was polluted with blood.
Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went a whoring with their own inventions.
KJV Study — Public Domain
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“their sons”
H1121a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“and their daughters”
H1323a daughter (used in the same wide sense as other terms of relationship, literally and figuratively)
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