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The Israelite warrior Jephthah sacrificed his virgin daughter to Yahweh in fulfillment of a vow he made in order to secure Yahweh's help in battle. The same ideology can be seen in some early accounts of the Canaanite conquest, in which Yahweh gives Israelites victory against Canaanite armies, and the Israelites in turn slaughter all of the women and children in payment to Yahweh for his aid.

There's also evidence that Yahweh commanded human sacrifice in the law of Moses. Later, when the practice of human sacrifice fell into disrepute among elite circles, the prophet Ezekiel confirms that Yahweh commanded human sacrifice, but interprets that command as a form of punishment for Israel's disobedience.

Ezekiel needed a way to deal with that tradition found in Exodus 22, and did so by claiming that Yahweh ordered them to kill their firstborn sons as a way of getting back at them for their lack of faith in him. Obviously Ezekiel's solution to the problem was problematic in itself, but at least we can thank him for helping to put an end to the institution of child sacrifice in Israelite religion. Sott.

Human Sacrifice in Ancient Israel.

I am more inclined to believe the ancient Jews were indeed sacrificing to Moloch, bearing in mind they rejected the material handed down from Allah out of hand and went ahead and built a bovine idol, where after M himself smashed the tablets upon which the laws were inscribed .. we say from that time the Jews have remained hostile to God, that subsequent revisionists have changed the lettering scrubbing out Moloch and inserting Yahweh.