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Moloch, Molech, or Molek [a] is a word which appears in the Hebrew Bible several times, primarily in the Book of Leviticus. The Bible strongly condemns practices that are associated with Moloch, which are heavily implied to include child sacrifice. [2] Traditionally, the name Moloch has been understood as referring to a Canaanite god. [3]
[23] [24] The Bible connects the Tophet with Moloch in two later texts, 2 Kings 23:10 and Jeremiah 32:35. [25] Lindsay Cooper writes in support of this connection that "The location of the Jerusalem tofet outside the city's eastern wall, at the traditional entrance to the netherworld, explicitly connects child sacrifice with the cult of death."
Part II of Allen Ginsberg's 1955 poem "Howl", "Moloch", is about the state of industrial civilization, Moloch is also the name of an industrial, demonic figure in Fritz Lang's Metropolis, a film that Ginsberg credits with influencing "Howl, Part II". [2] Moloch (Молох) is a 1999 Russian biographical drama film directed by Alexander Sokurov.
The name occurs several additional times in the Septuagint: 2 Samuel 12:30, 1 Chronicles 20:2, Amos 1:15, Jeremiah 40 (=30):1.3, Zephaniah 1:5, and 1 Kings 11:7. [4] The Masoretic text reads malkam, meaning "their king" in most of these instances. [5] It is likely that the Hebrew text originally read Milcom in at least some of these instances. [6]
The Canaanite god Moloch was the recipient of child sacrifice according to the account of the Hebrew Bible, as well as Greco-Roman historiography on the god of Carthage. Moloch is depicted in John Milton 's epic poem Paradise Lost as one of the greatest warriors of the rebel angels, vengeful and militant.
Republican primary voters chose Moloch over Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis and Doug Burgum and all the others who now bend the knee to the man they all know—and some at least have said, though ...
The “One Tree Hill” actress attended a Bible study in L.A. with other actors and got sucked into a cult, she claims in her new book. Here's what she says about that time.
Moloch: or, This Gentile World is a semi-autobiographical novel written by Henry Miller in 1927-28, initially under the guise of a novel written by his wife, June. [1] The book went unpublished until 1992, 65 years after it was written and 12 years after Miller's death.