Feb 10, 2019 · Baal And Moloch, Did The Ancient Gods Of The Levant Demand Child Sacrifices? In the Valley of Hinnom near Jerusalem stood a giant statue of the god Moloch. The valley and the deity are infamous for their historical association with child sacrifice.

Moloch, Molech, or Molek [a] is a word which appears in the Hebrew Bible several times, primarily in the Book of Leviticus. The Bible strongly condemns practices that are associated with Moloch, which are heavily implied to include child sacrifice .

The identification of Hadad-Baal with Moloch provides the background to Jeremiah 32:35, which fulminates against the bamot-altars of Baal in the valley of Ben-Hinnom where male and female children were burnt to Moloch, i.e., Baal-Hadad. Furthermore, a series of Assyrian-Aramean documents analyzed by K. Deller showed that Adadmilki or Adadšarru ...

Feb 27, 2024 · Baal, a major Northwest Semitic god of rain and fertility, contrasts with Moloch, a god associated with child sacrifice in ancient Near Eastern religions. Baal was worshipped across the ancient Near East, especially among the Canaanites, …

Báʿal (בַּעַל) and baʿl still serve as the words for 'husband' in modern Hebrew and Arabic respectively. They also appear in some contexts concerning the ownership of things or possession of traits.

Moloch, a Canaanite deity associated in biblical sources with the practice of child sacrifice. The name derives from combining the consonants of the Hebrew melech (’king’) with the vowels of boshet (’shame’), the latter often being used in the Old Testament as a variant name for the popular god Baal (’Lord’).

Jan 11, 2007 · The images of Baal, Ashtaroth and Molech are today viewed primarily by bored schoolchildren in museums.

Because child-sacrifice was a prominent feature of the worship of the Phenician Malik-Baal-Kronos, Moore (in Cheyne and Black, "Encyc. Bibl.") seeks to prove that the worship of Moloch was introduced from Phenicia.

The identification of Hadad-Baal with Moloch provides the background to Jeremiah 32:35, which fulminates against the bamot-altars of Baal in the valley of Ben-Hinnom where male and female children were burnt to Moloch, i.e., Baal-Hadad. Furthermore, a series of Assyrian-Aramean documents analyzed by K. Deller showed that Adadmilki or Adadšarru ...

In one chapter the prophet Jeremiah denounces the Jews for the holocaust of their own children before the altar of Baal. Elsewhere, he writes that in the Valley of Ennon, the Jews sacrificed their children to Moloch. To attenuate the horror of this type of idolatry, the rabbinate usually only references the second of these anecdotes.