몰렉 은
Ammon 민족이 주로 섬기던 이방신 중 하나이다. 시대에 따라 지역에 따라
밀곰 ,
Malcam ,
몰록 등으로 불리웠다.
몰렉 신앙의 가장 큰 특징은 인신공양 제사를 드렸다는 것이다.
특히 어린아이를 불로 태워 바치는 제사를 드렸고, 하나님은 특이 이 행위를 매우 싫어하셔서 성경 곳곳에서 그런 행위를 하는 자들을 돌로 치라고 하셨다.
“ ‘You shall not give any of your children as a sacrifice to Molech . You shall not profane the name of your God. I am Yahweh.
2 “Moreover, you shall tell the children of Israel , ‘Anyone of the children of Israel, or of the strangers who live as foreigners in Israel, who gives any of his offspring to Molech shall surely be put to death. The people of the land shall stone that person with stones.
3 I 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.
4 If 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,
5 then 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.
그럼에도 이스라엘 역사상 몰렉 신앙은 주기적으로 반복되었고, 왕들 중에서도 이렇게 아이를 불로 태우는 짓을 자행하는 일이 있었다.
They built the high places of Baal , which are in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through fire to Molech , which I didn’t command them. It didn’t even come into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.”
For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.
because that they have forsaken me, and have worshiped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of Moab, and Milcom the god of the children of Ammon. They have not walked in my ways, to do that which is right in my eyes, and to keep my statutes and my ordinances, as David his father did.
The king defiled the high places that were before Jerusalem , which were on the right hand of the mountain of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon.
You went to the king with oil, increased your perfumes, sent your ambassadors far off, and degraded yourself even to Sheol .
Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, on the mountain that is before Jerusalem , and for Molech the abomination of the children of Ammon.
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.
You took up the tabernacle of Moloch, the star of your god Rephan , the figures which you made to worship. I will carry you away beyond Babylon .’