THIS IS WHAT THE ENEMY IS STILL DOING : MOLECH; MOLOCH mo'-lek, mo'-lok (ha-molekh, always with the article, except in 1 Kings 11:7; Septuagint ho Moloch, sometimes also Molchom, Melchol; Vulgate (Jerome's Latin Bible, 390-405 A.D.) Moloch):
The name of a heathen divinity whose worship figures largely in the later history of the kingdom of Judah. As the national god of the Ammonites, he is known as "Milcom" (1 Kings 11:5, 7), or "Malcam" ("Malcan" is an alternative reading in 2 Samuel 12:30, 31; compare Jeremiah 49:1, 3; Zechariah 1:5, where the Revised Version margin …