Leviticus 18:21
pass through.Molech signifies a king, or governor, of similar import with Baâl, 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. 20:2; De 12:31; 18:10; 2Ki 16:3; 21:6; 23:10; Ps 106:37,38; Jer 7:31Jer 19:5; Eze 20:31; 23:37to Molech.1Ki 11:7,33; Am 5:26; Ac 7:43Moloch.profane.19:12; 20:2-5; 21:6; 22:2,32; Eze 36:20-23; Mal 1:12; Ro 1:23; 2:24Leviticus 20:2
Whosoever.17:8,13,15giveth.18:21; De 12:31; 18:10; 2Ki 17:17; 23:10; 2Ch 28:3; 33:6; Ps 106:38Isa 57:5,6; Jer 7:31; 32:35; Eze 16:20,21; 20:26,31; 23:37,39Ac 7:43Moloch. 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. the people.27; 24:14,23; Nu 15:35,36; De 13:10,11; 17:5-7; 21:21; Ac 7:58,59Deuteronomy 18:10
maketh.12:31; Le 18:21-30; 20:2-5; 2Ki 16:3; 17:17; 21:6; 2Ch 28:3Ps 106:37,38; Jer 19:4-6; 32:35that useth divination.The precise import of the terms here used to express these unhallowed practices cannot be clearly ascertained: he that useth divination, {kosaim, kesamim,} seems a general term for the various species after specified; observer of times, {meonain,} one who pretends to foretell by the clouds, planets, etc.; enchanter {menachesh,} a diviner, either by means of serpents, or by inspecting the entrails of beasts, the flight of birds, etc.; a witch, {mecashsheph,} one who used magical fumigations, etc.; a charmer, {chover chaver,} one who uses spells, or a peculiar conjunction of words, or tying knots, etc.; a consulter with familiar spirits, {shoel ov,} a pythoness; a wizard, {yidoni,} a cunning man; necromancer, {doresh el hammaithim} one who seeks enquiries of the dead. Ex 22:18; Le 19:26,31; 20:26,27; 1Sa 28:3,7,9; 1Ch 10:13; 2Ch 33:6Isa 8:19,20; 47:13; Ac 19:19; Ga 5:20Jeremiah 7:31
the high.19:5,6; 32:35; 2Ki 23:20; 2Ch 33:6the valley.19:2; Jos 15:8; 2Ch 28:3to burn.De 12:31; 2Ki 17:17; Ps 106:37,38; Eze 16:20which I.Le 18:21; 20:1-5; De 17:3came it into. Heb. came it upon.Jeremiah 32:35
they built.7:31; 19:5,6; 2Ki 23:10; 2Ch 28:2,3; 33:6; Ps 106:37,38; Isa 57:5Eze 16:20,21; 23:37which.7:31; Le 18:21; 20:2-5; De 18:10; 1Ki 11:33to cause.Ex 32:21; De 24:4; 1Ki 14:16; 15:26,30; 16:19; 21:22; 2Ki 3:3; 21:112Ki 23:15; 2Ch 33:9Ezekiel 20:31
ye offer.26; De 18:10-12; Ps 106:37-39; Jer 7:31; 19:5and shall.3; 14:3,4; 1Sa 28:5,6; 2Ki 3:13,14; Job 27:8,10; Ps 66:18Pr 1:27,28; 28:9; Isa 1:15; Jer 14:12; Zec 7:13; Mt 25:11,12Jas 4:1-3Ezekiel 23:27
will I.16:41; 22:15; Isa 27:9; Mic 5:10-14; Zec 13:2and thy.3,19so that.These severe judgments shall effectually deter you from idolatry, and make you abhor the least approaches to it. This often repeated prediction has received a most wonderful accomplishment. For neither the authority, frowns, examples, or favour of their conquerors or powerful neighbours, nor their own fears, hopes, interests, or predilection for the sensual worship of idols, could prevail with them to run into gross idolatry, either during the captivity, or ever afterwards, to the present day, a period of 2,414 years.Micah 6:7
pleased.1Sa 15:22; Ps 10:8-13; 50:9; 51:16; Isa 1:11-15; 40:16; Jer 7:21,22Ho 6:6; Am 5:22rivers.Job 29:6shall.Jud 11:31,39; 2Ki 3:27; 16:3; 21:6; 23:10; Jer 7:31; 19:5Eze 16:20,21; 23:37body. Heb. belly.Phm 1:12
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