Molech
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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And Luke, in Acts viii. 43., says, “Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of Molech.”
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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.
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Kimchi says the image of Molech contained seven chapels.
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Children may once have “passed through fire to Molech” where now the heaving turf shrouds the skeleton of a decayed church.
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He also destroyed Topheth, which is in the valley of Ben-Hinnom, so that no man could ever make his son or his daughter pass through the fire to Molech.
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