Leviticus 20:2 (KJV)

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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

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Whosoever. Le 17:8 Le 17:13 Le 17:15

giveth. Le 18:21 De 12:31 De 18:10 2Ki 17:17 2Ki 23:10 2Ch 28:3 2Ch 33:6 Ps 106:38 Isa 57:5 Isa 57:6 Jer 7:31 Jer 32:35 Eze 16:20 Eze 16:21 Eze 20:26 Eze 20:31 Eze 23:37 Eze 23:39 Ac 7:43

the people. Le 20:27 Le 24:14 Le 24:23 Nu 15:35 Nu 15:36 De 13:10 De 13:11 De 17:5-7 De 21:21 Ac 7:58 Ac 7:59

Moloch. Molech.The Rabbins describe this idol as made of brass sitting upon a throne of the same metal, in the form of a man, with the head of a calf, adorned with a royal crown, and his arms extended as if to embrace any one. When they offered any children to him, they heated the statue by a great fire kindled within, and the victim was put into his arms, and thus consumed. Others relate, that the idol, which was hollow, was divided into seven compartments within; in one of which they put flour, in the second turtles, in the third a ewe, in the fourth a ram, in the fifth a calf, in the sixth an ox, and the seventh a child; which were all burnt together by heating the statue inside. The account which Diodorus (l. xx.) gives of the statue of Saturn, to which the Carthaginians, descendants of the Canaanites, sacrificed their children, is very similar. For they had a brazen stature of Saturn, stretching out his hands towards the ground, in such a manner that the children placed within them tumbled down into a pit full of fire. To this account Milton alludes, in Paradise Lost, B. 1. 392.

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