Hours with the Bible : or, The Scriptures in the light of modern discovery and knowledge . uffed into the sack on the ass, beside the goddess. . Inthe evening, when they reached a caravanserai they made up forthe bloody chastisements of the day by a debauch, and, if theopportunity offered, gave themselves up to every Dea Stjra, quoted by Movers, vol. 1. p. 681. ^ Kadeshim is the mascaliue plural of Kadesh, a man conse-crated (to impurity). See note, p. 363. 2 De Dea Syra, § 15, 22, 27, 49-51. ^ 2 Kings xxiii. 7. * A description of the dances of the dervishes in Egypt is given by
Hours with the Bible : or, The Scriptures in the light of modern discovery and knowledge . uffed into the sack on the ass, beside the goddess. . Inthe evening, when they reached a caravanserai they made up forthe bloody chastisements of the day by a debauch, and, if theopportunity offered, gave themselves up to every Dea Stjra, quoted by Movers, vol. 1. p. 681. ^ Kadeshim is the mascaliue plural of Kadesh, a man conse-crated (to impurity). See note, p. 363. 2 De Dea Syra, § 15, 22, 27, 49-51. ^ 2 Kings xxiii. 7. * A description of the dances of the dervishes in Egypt is given by Orelli,Lurchs Heilige Land, p. 27, which very much resembles what is told of thedances round the altar of Baal. t 1 Kings xviii. 29. 366 PALESTINE IN SOLOMON^S 1 mothers from the top of the temple walls during the feastof Ashtoreth,, to be afterwards burnt on the altar. It wasin the worship of Moloch, however, that this fearfulperversion of human instincts was most terribly Eabbis describe his image ^ as a human figurewith a bulls head and outstretched arras, and this is. MoiiOCH. confirmed by Diodorus.^ The huge figure, which wasof metal, was made glowing hot by a fire kindled withinit, and the children, laid in its arms, rolled ofi into thefiery lap below. The parents stilled the cries of the in-tended victims by fondling and kissing them—for theirweeping would have been unpropitious—and their shrieksafterwards were drowned in the din of flutes and kettledrums.^ Mothers, says Plutarch, stood by, restraining * Jarclii, on Jerem. vii. 31. ^ Diod., xx. 14-. 3 Von Dollinger, The Gentile and the Jew, etG., vol. ii. p. 427. PALESTINE IN SOLOMOns DAT. 367 all signs of grief, wliich would have lost tliem the honourof their sacrifice, without saving the children,^ These hideous scenes were renewed each year on fixeddays as an atonement for all the sins committed in thepast twelve months. They also took place before greatenterprises, or after great misfortunes. The more
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