Who was the Canaanite god Molech?
The first mention of Molech is in Leviticus 18:21 in which the Lord commanded, "You shall not give any of your children to offer them to Molech, and so profane the name of your God: I am the Lord." The worship of Molech clearly involved ritual child sacrifice, something God's people were not to practice. This act was punishable by death according to Leviticus 20:2 which states, "Any one of the people of Israel or of the strangers who sojourn in Israel who gives any of his children to Molech shall surely be put to death."
Further, child sacrifice to Molech was considered profanity against God's holy name. Leviticus 20:3 says, "I myself will set my face against that man and will cut him off from among his people, because he has given one of his children to Molech, to make my sanctuary unclean and to profane my holy name." Not only were those who sacrificed their children to be stoned to death, those who ignored such a sacrifice would be abandoned by God (Leviticus 20:5).
Yet this clear and stern warning from the Lord did not end the practice of Molech worship among the Israelites. Even King Solomon participated. First Kings 11:7 says, "Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Molech the abomination of the Ammonites, on the mountain east of Jerusalem." In addition, this verse connects Molech worship with the Ammonites, one of the groups God elsewhere condemns for pagan worship.
King Josiah would later take the law's command against Molech worship very seriously. Second Kings 23:10 says, "And he defiled Topheth, which is in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, that no one might burn his son or his daughter as an offering to Molech." Apparently this area of Judea had become a location of Molech worship among God's people by this time. Yet Josiah's determination to apply God's laws to society ended child sacrifice for a time.
The final mention of Molech in the Old Testament is found in God's words to Jeremiah. "They set up their abominations in the house that is called by my name, to defile it. They built the high places of Baal in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, to offer up their sons and daughters to Molech, though I did not command them, nor did it enter into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin" (Jeremiah 32:34-35).
Molech represents the most repulsive of acts in God's sight, the ritual sacrifice of children to a pagan god, which was condemned in the strongest way by the Lord, including punishment by death.
Leviticus 20:1-6, 27
the godly often die before their time.
But no one seems to care or wonder why.
No one seems to understand
that God is protecting them from the evil to come.
2 For those who follow godly paths
will rest in peace when they die.
YOU OFFSPRING OF ADULTERERS AND PROSTITUTES!
4 Whom do you mock,
making faces and sticking out your tongues?
You children of sinners and liars!
5 YOU WORSHIP YOUR IDOLS with great passion
beneath the oaks and under every green tree.
YOU SACRIFICE YOUR CHILDREN DOWN IN THE VALLEYS,
among the jagged rocks in the cliffs.
6 YOUR gods ARE THE SMOOTH STONES IN THE VALLEYS.
YOU WORSHIP THEM WITH LIQUID OFFERINGS AND GRAIN OFFERINGS.
They, not I, are your inheritance.
Do you think all this makes me happy?
7 YOU HAVE COMMITTED ADULTERY on every high mountain.
There YOU HAVE WORSHIPED IDOLS
and have been unfaithful to me.
8 YOU HAVE PUT PAGAN SYMBOLS
ON YOUR DOORPOSTS AND BEHIND YOUR DOORS.
You have left me
and CLIMBED INTO BED WITH THESE DETESTABLE GODS.
YOU HAVE COMMITTED YOURSELVES TO THEM.
YOU LOVE TO LOOK AT THEIR NAKED BODIES.
9 YOU HAVE GONE TO MOLECH
with olive oil and many perfumes,
sending your agents far and wide,
EVEN TO THE WORLD OF THE DEAD.
10 You grew weary in your search,
but you never gave up.
Desire gave you renewed strength,
and you did not grow weary.
Why are you, who worship MOLECH, living in its towns?
2 In the days to come,” says the Lord, “I will sound the battle cry against your city of Rabbah.
It will become a desolate heap of ruins, and the neighboring towns will be burned.
Then Israel will take back the land you took from her,” says the Lord.
for the town of Ai is destroyed.
Weep, O people of Rabbah! Put on your clothes of mourning.
Weep and wail, hiding in the hedges, for your god MOLECH, with his priests and officials, will be hauled off to distant lands.
3 “I will sweep away people and animals alike. I will sweep away the birds of the sky and the fish in the sea.
I will reduce the wicked to heaps of rubble, and I will wipe humanity from the face of the earth,” says the Lord.
4 “I will crush Judah and Jerusalem with my fist and destroy every last trace of their Baal worship.
I will put an end to all the idolatrous priests, so that even the memory of them will disappear.
5 For they go up to their roofs and bow down to the sun, moon, and stars.
They claim to follow the Lord,but then they worship MOLECH, too.
6 And I will destroy those who used to worship me but now no longer do.
They no longer ask for the Lord’s guidance
or seek my blessings.”
43 No, you carried your pagan gods— the shrine of MOLECH,
the star of your god Rephan,
and the images you made to worship them.
So I will send you into exile as far away as Babylon.’
MOLOCH
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