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''Offering to Molech'' in Bible Pictures and What They Teach Us, by Charles Foster, 1897. The drawing is typical of Moloch depictions in nineteenth-century illustrations. [1] Moloch, Molech, or Molek [a] is a word which appears in the Hebrew Bible several times, primarily in the Book of Leviticus.
The connection to ritual fire is made explicit in 2 Kings 23:10, Isaiah 30:33; and Jeremiah 7:31–32. In 2 Kings, King Josiah. defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, that no man might make his son or his daughter to pass through the fire to Molech.
The site would also have been disrupted by the actions of Josiah "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." (2 Kings 23).
Fire god of the Canaanites referred to in Leviticus 18:21: "And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through the fire to Molech." Worship of Moloch involved the sacrifice of children by fire. [62] [81] "Moloch whose buildings are judgement!" A reference to Urizen, one of William Blake's four Zoas. [81]
2 Kings 16:3 records that Ahaz offered his son by fire to Moloch (or made his son pass through fire), a practice condemned by Leviticus 18:21. [8] The words may refer to a ceremony of purification or a sacrificial offering. [9] The account in 2 Chronicles 28:3 refers to sons (plural).
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Lev. 18:21 — Not to pass your children through the fire to Molech; Lev. 19:23 — Not to eat fruit of a tree during its first three years; Lev. 19:24 — The fourth year crops must be totally for holy purposes like Ma'aser Sheni; Lev. 19:26 — Not to be superstitious; Lev. 19:26 — Not to engage in divination or soothsaying