Whosoever: Leviticus 17:8, Leviticus 17:13, Leviticus 17:15
giveth: Leviticus 18:21; Deuteronomy 12:31, Deuteronomy 18:10; 2 Kings 17:17, 2 Kings 23:10; 2 Chronicles 28:3, 2 Chronicles 33:6; Psalms 106:38; Isaiah 57:5-6; Jeremiah 7:31, Jeremiah 32:35; Ezekiel 16:20-21, Ezekiel 20:26, Ezekiel 20:31, Ezekiel 23:37, Ezekiel 23:39; Acts 7:43, Moloch.
Molech: The Rabbins describe this idol as made of brass sitting upon a throne of the same metal, in the form of a man, with the head of a calf, adorned with a royal crown, and his arms extended as if to embrace any one. When they offered any children to him, they heated the statue by a great fire kindled within, and the victim was put into his arms, and thus consumed. Others relate, that the idol, which was hollow, was divided into seven compartments within; in one of which they put flour, in the second turtles, in the third a ewe, in the fourth a ram, in the fifth a calf, in the sixth an ox, and the seventh a child; which were all burnt together by heating the statue inside. The account which Diodorus (l. xx.) gives of the statue of Saturn, to which the Carthaginians, descendants of the Canaanites, sacrificed their children, is very similar. For they had a brazen stature of Saturn, stretching out his hands towards the ground, in such a manner that the children placed within them tumbled down into a pit full of fire. To this account Milton alludes, in Paradise Lost, B. 1. 392.