2 Kings 21:6

Pass through the fire] see on 2 Kings 16:3. For his son 2 Chronicles 33:6 has 'his children.' Observed times] RV 'practised augury': by the observation of the clouds, etc. Familiar spirits] RV 'them that had familiar spirits': such persons were believed to be animated by, or to have intercourse with, the spirits of the dead: cp. 1 Samuel 28:7. One of the devices employed by them was probably ventriloquism, the spirit appearing to speak from the ground (Isaiah 8:19; Isaiah 29:4).