There is also the Moloch horridus of South and Western Australia, covered with tubercles bearing large spines, which give it a very strange aspect.

Corresponding to heaven, the abode of the righteous, we have Ge-henna (originally Ge-Hinnom, the scene of the Moloch rites of human sacrifice), the place of punishment after death for apostate Jews.

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A Catholic commentator of the 16th century, Hieronymus ab Oleastro, seems to have been the first to connect the name " Jehova " with howah interpreting it contritio, sive pernicies (destruction of the Egyptians and Canaanites); Daumer, adopting the same etymology, took it in a more general sense: Yahweh, as well as Shaddai, meant " Destroyer," and fitly expressed the nature of the terrible god whom he identified with Moloch.

the Moloch who appears from the stele of Jehawmelek to have been with Baalit the chief deity of the city.

See Moloch.

are of too late date by themselves to prove the immolation of children to Moloch in old Israel.

Moloch), that sacrificial functions reached their full importance.

been called Moloch horridus.

The god who demanded these victims, and especially the burning of children, seems to have been Milk, the Molech or Moloch of the Old Testament.

15-19) and swear by the Ammonite god Milcom (or perhaps by their Moloch; for the persistence of his grim cult, see Moloch).

3) see Moloch.

There is also the Moloch horridus of South and Western Australia, covered with tubercles bearing large spines, which give it a very strange aspect.

Corresponding to heaven, the abode of the righteous, we have Ge-henna (originally Ge-Hinnom, the scene of the Moloch rites of human sacrifice), the place of punishment after death for apostate Jews.

(See MoLocH.) (S.

A Catholic commentator of the 16th century, Hieronymus ab Oleastro, seems to have been the first to connect the name " Jehova " with howah interpreting it contritio, sive pernicies (destruction of the Egyptians and Canaanites); Daumer, adopting the same etymology, took it in a more general sense: Yahweh, as well as Shaddai, meant " Destroyer," and fitly expressed the nature of the terrible god whom he identified with Moloch.

the Moloch who appears from the stele of Jehawmelek to have been with Baalit the chief deity of the city.

See Moloch.

MOLOCH, or Molech (in Hebrew, with the doubtful exception of 1 Kings xi.

are of too late date by themselves to prove the immolation of children to Moloch in old Israel.

Moloch), that sacrificial functions reached their full importance.

been called Moloch horridus.

The god who demanded these victims, and especially the burning of children, seems to have been Milk, the Molech or Moloch of the Old Testament.

the shrines of Chemosh, Moloch, Baal of Tyre and Astarte of Sidon (1 Kings xi.

15-19) and swear by the Ammonite god Milcom (or perhaps by their Moloch; for the persistence of his grim cult, see Moloch).

3) see Moloch.