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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Moloch
The Ammonite god, worshipped by burning children, and the same as Molech, Milcom and Malcham. Solomon built him a high place on the Mount of Olives for his foreign wives, and Josiah tore it down. Stephen quotes Amos against his worship in front of the Sanhedrin.
The Ammonite god, worshipped by burning children, and the same as Molech, Milcom and Malcham. Solomon built him a high place on the Mount of Olives for his foreign wives, and Josiah tore it down. Stephen quotes Amos against his worship in front of the Sanhedrin.
Not a person but the national god of the Ammonites, worshiped with child sacrifice by fire, also called Molech, Milcom, and Malcham in various Old Testament passages (Lev. 18:21, 20:2-5; 1 Kings 11:5, 33; Zeph. 1:5). Solomon built a high place for Moloch on the Mount of Olives to please his foreign wives, and the cult persisted intermittently until Josiah's reforms destroyed it (1 Kings 11:7; 2 Kings 23:10, 13). Stephen references the exile-era rebuke of Moloch worship in his speech before the Sanhedrin (Acts 7:43, quoting Amos 5:26); archaeologists have found child burial sites called tophets at Carthage and other Phoenician colonies that many scholars connect to related West Semitic child-sacrifice cults, though the practice's exact nature remains debated.
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- Acts 7:43
