Molech

Gender: Male

Years: -1490 - -589

Dictionary Text: King, the name of the national god of the Ammonites, to whom children were sacrificed by fire. He was the consuming and destroying and also at the same time the purifying fire. In, “your Moloch” of the Authorized Version is “your king” in the Revised Version. Solomon erected a high place for this idol on the Mount of Olives, and from that time till the days of Josiah his worship continued,. In the days of Jehoahaz it was partially restored, but after the Captivity wholly disappeared. He is also called Molech;, etc., Milcom,, etc., and Malcham. This god became Chemosh among the Moabites.

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Verses

• 2 Kings 23:10: And he defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the children of Hinnom, that no man might make his son or his daughter to pass through the fire to Molech.
• Leviticus 20:5: Then I will set my face against that man, and against his family, and will cut him off, and all that go a whoring after him, to commit whoredom with Molech, from among their people.
• Leviticus 20:4: And if the people of the land do any ways hide their eyes from the man, when he giveth of his seed unto Molech, and kill him not:
• Jeremiah 32:35: And they built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire unto Molech; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.
• 1 Kings 11:7: Then did Solomon build an high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, in the hill that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the abomination of the children of Ammon.
• Leviticus 18:21: And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through the fire to Molech, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the LORD.
• Leviticus 20:2: Again, thou shalt say to the children of Israel, Whosoever he be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, that giveth any of his seed unto Molech; he shall surely be put to death: the people of the land shall stone him with stones.
• Leviticus 20:3: And I will set my face against that man, and will cut him off from among his people; because he hath given of his seed unto Molech, to defile my sanctuary, and to profane my holy name.