Psalms 106:37
Translations
King James Version (KJV)
Yes, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters to devils,
American King James Version (AKJV)
Yes, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters to devils,
American Standard Version (ASV)
Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto demons,
Basic English Translation (BBE)
They even made offerings of their sons and their daughters to evil spirits,
Webster's Revision
Yes, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons,
World English Bible
Yes, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons.
English Revised Version (ERV)
Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto demons,
Definitions for Psalms 106:37
Clarke's Psalms 106:37 Bible Commentary
They sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils - See 2 Kings 16:3; Isaiah 57:5; Ezekiel 16:20; ezekiel EZechariah 20:26. That causing their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire to Moloch did not always mean they burnt them to death in the flames, is very probable. But all the heathen had human sacrifices; of this their history is full. Unto devils, לשדים lashshedim, to demons. Devil is never in Scripture used in the plural; there is but One devil, though there are Many demons.
Barnes's Psalms 106:37 Bible Commentary
Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters - See 2 Kings 16:3; Ezekiel 16:20; Ezekiel 20:31; Isaiah 57:5.
Unto devils - Hebrew, שׁדים shêdiym. The Septuagint, δαιμονίοις daimoniois, "demons." So the Vulgate, "daemoniis." The word is used only in the plural number, and is applied to idols. It occurs only in this place, and in Deuteronomy 32:17. On the meaning of this, see the notes at 1 Corinthians 10:20.
Wesley's Psalms 106:37 Bible Commentary
106:37 Devils - They did not worship God as they pretended, but devils in their idols; for those spirits, which were supposed by the Heathen idolaters to inhabit in their images, were not good spirits, but evil spirits, or devils.
