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Molech

Mentions
8
Chapters
5
Books
4

A Canaanite deity to whom some Israelites sacrificed their children, an abomination God explicitly forbade. The Law commanded death for anyone who gave children to Molech. Later kings like Solomon introduced Molech worship, building high places that marked Israel's spiritual decline.

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"“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; he shall surely be put to death. The people of the land shall stone him with stones."
Leviticus 20

Every chapter

In canonical order across 4 books

Leviticus
18
v. 21
20
v. 2
1 Kings
11
v. 7
2 Kings
23
v. 10
Jeremiah
32
v. 35

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