2 “You are to say to the sons of Israel, ‘Any man of the sons of Israel, and any alien resident who resides as an alien in Israel, who gives any of his offspring to Moʹlech,*+ should be put to death without fail. The people of the land should pelt him to death with stones.

7 It was then that Solʹo·mon proceeded to build a high place+ to Cheʹmosh+ the disgusting+ thing of Moʹab on the mountain+ that was in front+ of Jerusalem, and to Moʹlech the disgusting thing of the sons of Amʹmon.

10 And he made unfit for worship Toʹpheth,*+ which is in the valley of the sons of Hinʹnom,*+ that no one might make his son or his daughter pass through the fire+ to Moʹlech.+

43 But it was the tent of Moʹloch+ and the star+ of the god Reʹphan that YOU took up, the figures which YOU made to worship them. Consequently I will deport+ YOU beyond Babylon.’*