The Scripture history of idolatry, showing the connexion between the traditions of pagan mythology and the Bible .. . alled Adraiudielech and Anammslech, amongthe Samarians, (2 Kings, xvii. 31,) means a king,(Amos, v. 26, Acts, vii. 43,) and is therefore re-garded by some as the same as Baal, (Jer. xix. 5,and xxxii. 35,) and as representing the Sun, whichwas called king of the stars. The worship ofMoloch is forbidden under terrible penalties. ( 21, and xx. 2, 5.) Solomon worshipped Moloch among the idolswrhom he set up as his gods, (1 Kings, xi. 7.)Jehovah, through his prophet Jeremi
The Scripture history of idolatry, showing the connexion between the traditions of pagan mythology and the Bible .. . alled Adraiudielech and Anammslech, amongthe Samarians, (2 Kings, xvii. 31,) means a king,(Amos, v. 26, Acts, vii. 43,) and is therefore re-garded by some as the same as Baal, (Jer. xix. 5,and xxxii. 35,) and as representing the Sun, whichwas called king of the stars. The worship ofMoloch is forbidden under terrible penalties. ( 21, and xx. 2, 5.) Solomon worshipped Moloch among the idolswrhom he set up as his gods, (1 Kings, xi. 7.)Jehovah, through his prophet Jeremiah, complainsthat his covenant people had built the high placesof Baal, which are in the valley of the son of Hin-non, to cause their sons and their daughters topass through the fire to Moloch, which I com-manded them not; neither came it into my mind,that they should do this abomination, to causeJudah to sin. (Jer. xxxii. 35.) The passage in Jeremiah, xix. 5, to which allu-sion was made on a preceding page, appears stillfurther to confirm the opinion that Moloch wasthe Baal of the Ammonites, and essentially the. Moloch. SECHE3IITES, AMMONITES, AND PHILISTINES. 13? same as that idol. They have built, also, thehigh places of Baal, to burn their sons with firefor burnt-offerings unto Baal, which I commandednot, nor spake it, neither came it into my planet Mars is said to have been the Mo-loch of the Egyptians. It is reckoned among theidols of the Canaanites : They sacrificed theirsons and their daughters unto devils, and shedinnocent blood, even the blood of their sons andtheir daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idolsof Canaan, &c. (Ps. cvi. 38.) Here, there isan evident allusion to Moloch. This idol was,however, more especially the god of the Ammon-ites, and is expressly called the abomination ofthe children of Ammon. (1 Kings, xi. 7.) Ac-cording to the most authentic accounts, its imagewas a brazen statue, with the head of an ox, highhorns, and extended hands, as t
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