Leviticus
18:21
And thou shalt not let any of thy
seed pass through the fire to
Molech, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the LORD.
a. NLT: “Do not permit any of your children to be offered as a
sacrifice to Molech, for you must not bring shame on the name of your God. I am
the LORD.
b. NIV: “ ‘Do not
give any of your children to be sacrificed to Molek, for you must not profane
the name of your God. I am the LORD.
c. Amplified
Bible: You shall not give any of your children to pass through the fire and sacrifice
them to Molech [the fire god], nor shall you profane the name of your God [by
giving it to false gods]. I am the Lord.
d. Septuagint: And
thou shalt not give of thy seed to serve a ruler; and thou shalt not profane my
holy name; I [am] the Lord.
e. Stone Edition
Torah/Writings/Prophets: You shall not present any of your children to pass
through for Molech, and do not profane the Name of your God—I am HASHEM.
1. “And thou shalt not let any of
thy seed pass through the fire to
Molech…”
a. do not permit
[5414 * Nathan] [Strong: a primitive root; to give, used with greatest latitude
of application (put, make, etc.):--add, apply, appoint, ascribe, assign, X
avenge, X be ((healed)), bestow, bring (forth, hither), cast, cause, charge,
come, commit, consider, count, + cry, deliver (up), direct, distribute, do, X
doubtless, X without fail, fasten, frame, X get, give (forth, over, up), grant,
hang (up), X have, X indeed, lay (unto charge, up), (give) leave, lend, let
(out), + lie, lift up, make, + O that, occupy, offer, ordain, pay, perform,
place, pour, print, X pull , put (forth), recompense, render, requite, restore,
send (out), set (forth), shew, shoot forth (up), + sing, + slander, strike,
(sub-)mit, suffer, X surely, X take, thrust, trade, turn, utter, + weep, +
willingly, + withdraw, + would (to) God, yield.]
b. any [4480 *
min] [Strong: for 4482; properly, a part of; hence (prepositionally), from
or out of in many senses (as follows):--above, after, among, at, because of, by
(reason of), from (among), in, X neither, X nor, (out) of, over, since, X then,
through, X whether, with.]
c. your seed [2233
* zera’] [Strong: from 2232; seed; figuratively, fruit, plant,
sowing-time, posterity:--X carnally, child, fruitful, seed(-time), sowing-
time.]
d. pass through [5674
* ‘abar] [Strong: a primitive root; to cross over; used very widely of any
transition (literal or figurative; transitive, intransitive, intensive,
causative); specifically, to cover (in copulation):--alienate, alter, X at all,
beyond, bring (over, through), carry over, (over-)come (on, over), conduct
(over), convey over, current, deliver, do away, enter, escape, fail, gender,
get over, (make) go (away, beyond, by, forth, his way, in, on, over, through),
have away (more), lay, meddle, overrun, make partition, (cause to, give, make
to, over) pass(-age, along, away, beyond, by, -enger, on, out, over, through),
(cause to, make) + proclaim(-amation), perish, provoke to anger, put away,
rage, + raiser of taxes, remove, send over, set apart, + shave, cause to (make)
sound, X speedily, X sweet smelling, take (away), (make to) transgress(-or),
translate, turn away, (way-)faring man, be wrath.]
e. Molech [4432 * Molek]
[Strong: from 4427; Molek (i.e. king), the chief deity of the Ammonites:--Molech.]
[Brown, Driver, Briggs: the god of the Ammonites and Phoenicians to whom some
Israelites sacrificed their infants in the valley of Hinnom.]
1). Unger’s Bible
Dictionary, Molech (mo’lek; Hebrew melek, king), a detestable Semite deity honored
by the sacrifice of children, in which they were caused to pass through or into
the fire. Palestinian excavations have uncovered evidences of infant skeletons
in burial places around heathen shrines. Ammonites revered Molech as a
protecting father. Worship of Molech was stringently prohibited by Hebrew law
(Leviticus 18:21; 20:1-5). Solomon built an altar to Molech at Tophet in the
Valley of Hinnom. Manassseh (c. B.C. 686-642) in his idolatrous orgy also honored
this deity. Josiah desecrated the Hinnom Valley altar but Jehoiakim revived the
cult. The prophets sternly denounced this form of heathen worship (Jeremiah
7:29-34; Ezekiel 16:20-22; 23:37-39; Amos 5:25). No form of ancient Semetic
worship was more abhorrent than Molech worship.]
2). One of the main
reasons for Israel’s and Judah’s expulsion from the land was because of child
sacrifice.
a). 2 Kings 24:1-4
In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his
servant three years: then he turned and rebelled against him.
24:2 And the Lord sent
against him bands of the Chaldees, and bands of the Syrians, and bands of the
Moabites, and bands of the children of Ammon, and sent them against Judah to
destroy it, according to the word of the Lord, which he spake by his
servants the prophets.
24:3 Surely at the
commandment of the Lord came this upon Judah, to remove them out of
his sight, for the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he did;
24:4And also for
the innocent blood that he shed: for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood;
which the Lord would not pardon.
2. “…neither shalt thou profane the
name of thy God: I am the
LORD.”
a. neither shalt thou
profane [2490 * chalal] [Strong: a primitive root (Compare 2470);
properly, to bore, i.e. (by implication) to wound, to dissolve; figuratively,
to profane (a person, place or thing), to break (one's word), to begin (as if
by an "opening wedge"); denom. (from 2485) to play (the
flute):--begin (X men began), defile, X break, defile, X eat (as common
things), X first, X gather the grape thereof, X take inheritance, pipe, player
on instruments, pollute, (cast as) profane (self), prostitute, slay (slain),
sorrow, stain, wound.]
b. name [8034 *
shem] [Strong: a primitive word (perhaps rather from 7760 through the
idea of definite and conspicuous position; Compare 8064); an appellation,
as a mark or memorial of individuality; by implication honor, authority,
character:--+ base, (in-)fame(-ous), named(-d), renown, report.]
c. God [430 8 ‘elohiym]
[Strong: plural of 433; gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically
used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God;
occasionally applied by way of deference to magistrates; and sometimes as a
superlative:--angels, X exceeding, God (gods)(-dess, -ly), X (very) great,
judges, X mighty.]
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