Leviticus 18:21
Molech <05674 04432> [pass through.]
Molech signifies a king, or governor, of similar import with BaÆ’l, 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.
Molech <04432> [to Molech.]
[Moloch.]
profane <02490> [profane.]
Deuteronomy 12:31
worship ......... do .............. done <06213> [Thou.]
Lord ............ abhorrent <08441 03068> [abomination to the. Heb. abomination of the. even their sons.]
The unnatural and horrid practice of offering human sacrifices not only existed, but universally prevailed among ancient nations. We have already (Note on Lev 20:2) referred to the custom among the Phoenicians and Carthaginians, descendants from the Canaanitish nations, of sacrificing their children to Moloch, or Saturn; and we will now cite a passage from Diodorus Siculus, (lib. xx.) which immediately precedes that already produced relative to this barbarous custom. He states that the Carthaginians imputed their being besieged by Agathocles to the anger of Saturn, because, instead of sacrificing the best of their own children, as formerly, they had sacrificed children bought for that purpose. "In haste, therefore, to rectify their errors, they chose 200 of the noblest children, and publicly sacrificed them! Others, accused of irreligion, voluntarily gave themselves up, to the number of no less than 300!"
Deuteronomy 18:10
son <01121> [maketh.]
or ......... divination .... reader <07081 07080> [that 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.
Deuteronomy 18:2
Lord <03068> [the Lord.]
Deuteronomy 17:17
many wives ........... accumulate <0802 07235> [multiply wives.]
many ............ accumulate <07235 03966> [neither shall he.]
Deuteronomy 23:10
Deuteronomy 23:2
Deuteronomy 28:3
city <05892> [in the city.]
field <07704> [in the field.]
Deuteronomy 33:6
Psalms 106:38
shed <08210> [shed.]
land <0776> [the land.]
Isaiah 57:5-6
[Inflaming.]
<0410> [with idols. or, among the oaks.]
green ............ overhangs <07488 05585> [under.]
slaughter <07819> [slaying.]
smooth <02511> [the smooth.]
pour <08210> [to them.]
vengeance <05162> [Should.]
Jeremiah 7:31
places of worship <01116> [the high.]
Valley <01516> [the valley.]
sacrifice <08313> [to burn.]
commanded <06680> [which I.]
entered ... mind <05927 03820> [came it into. Heb. came it upon.]
Jeremiah 32:35
built <01129> [they built.]
Valley .......................... commanded <01516 06680> [which.]
Ben ......... sons ................................... Judah <01121 03063> [to cause.]
Ezekiel 16:20-21
sons <01121> [thy sons.]
sacrificed <02076> [and these.]
eat <0398> [be devoured. Heb. devour. Is this.]
children <01121> [my children.]
sacrificed <05674> [to pass.]
Ezekiel 20:26
defiled <02930> [polluted.]
pass through <05674> [in that.]
first born <06363> [all that.]
know <03045> [to the end.]
Ezekiel 20:31
present <05375> [ye offer.]
seek ...................... seek <01875> [and shall.]
Ezekiel 23:37
adultery ........... adultery ...... their <05003> [they have.]
blood <01818> [and blood.]
sons <01121> [have also.]
Ezekiel 23:39
came <0935> [they came.]
done <06213> [thus.]
Acts 7:43
you took along <353> [ye took.]
images <5179> [figures.]
But ......... and .............. but I will deport <2532 3351> [and I.]
Babylon <897> [Babylon.]
In the passage of Amos, to which Stephen refers, it is beyond Damascus; but as Assyria and Media, to which they were carried, were not only beyond Damascus, but beyond Babylon itself, he states that fact, and thus fixes more precisely the place of their captivity.
