Molech is one of the pagan gods primarily worshipped by the Ammonite people. Depending on the era and region, it was called Milcom, Malcam, Moloch, etc. The most significant characteristic of Molech worship was the practice of human sacrifice. In particular, sacrifices involved burning children, and God especially detested this act, commanding in various places in the Bible that those who committed such acts be stoned.
Leviticus 18:21“ ‘You shall not lie with a man as with a woman. That is detestable.
Leviticus 20:2I also will set my face against that person, and will cut him off from among his people, because he has given of his offspring to Molech, to defile my sanctuary, and to profane my holy name.Leviticus 20:3If the people of the land all hide their eyes from that person when he gives of his offspring to Molech, and don’t put him to death,Leviticus 20:4then I will set my face against that man and against his family, and will cut him off, and all who play the prostitute after him to play the prostitute with Molech, from among their people.Leviticus 20:5“ ‘The person that turns to those who are mediums and wizards, to play the prostitute after them, I will even set my face against that person, and will cut him off from among his people.
Jeremiah 32:35Now therefore Yahweh, the God of Israel, says concerning this city, about which you say, “It is given into the hand of the king of Babylon by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence:”
1 Kings 11:5Solomon did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and didn’t go fully after Yahweh, as David his father did.
1 Kings 11:33“ ‘However I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand; but I will make him prince all the days of his life, for David my servant’s sake whom I chose, who kept my commandments and my statutes;
2 Kings 23:13He broke in pieces the pillars, cut down the Asherah poles, and filled their places with men’s bones.
Isaiah 57:9You were wearied with the length of your ways; yet you didn’t say, ‘It is in vain.’ You found a reviving of your strength; therefore you weren’t faint.
1 Kings 11:7So he did for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods.
2 Kings 23:10He took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entrance of Yahweh’s house, by the room of Nathan Melech the officer, who was in the court; and he burned the chariots of the sun with fire.
Acts 7:43“Our fathers had the tabernacle of the testimony in the wilderness, even as he who spoke to Moses commanded him to make it according to the pattern that he had seen;