Lev. 18:21

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pass through.Molech signifies a king, or governor, of similar import with Ba�, lord, or governor; and it is generally supposed that the sun was worshipped under this name; and more particularly as the fire appears to have been so much employed in his worship.

It seems clear that children were not only consecrated to him by passing through the fire, which appears to be alluded to here, but that they were actually made a burnt offering to him. (See the parallel passages.) That the several abominations afterwards mentioned were actually practised by many heathen nations is abundantly attested by their own writers.

Lev 20:2; Deut 12:31; Deut 18:10; 2Kgs 16:3; 2Kgs 21:6; 2Kgs 23:10; Ps 106:37; Ps 106:38; Jer 7:31 Jer 19:5; Ezek 20:31; Ezek 23:37 to Molech.

1Kgs 11:7; 1Kgs 11:33; Amos 5:26; Acts 7:43

Moloch.

profane.

Lev 19:12; Lev 20:2-5; Lev 21:6; Lev 22:2; Lev 22:32; Ezek 36:20-23; Mal 1:12; Rom 1:23; Rom 2:24