5 They built the high places of Baʹal in order to burn their sons in the fire as whole burnt offerings to Baʹal,+ something that I had not commanded or spoken of and that had never even come into my heart.”’*+

15 “This is what Jehovah of armies, the God of Israel, says, ‘Here I am bringing on this city and on all its towns all the calamity that I have spoken against it, because they stubbornly refused* to obey my words.’”+