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Keywords: Phoenician, Molech, Sacrifice, Ammonites, Sacrificed

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The fire god of the Ammonites in Canaan, to whom human sacrifices were offered; Molech. Also applied figuratively.

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a tyrannical power to be propitiated by human subservience or sacrifice; "the great Moloch of war"; "duty has become the Moloch of modern life"- Norman Douglas

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god of the Ammonites and Phoenicians to whom parents sacrificed their children

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The god of the Canaanites and Phoenicians to whom children were sacrificed

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Moloch or Molech or Molekh representing Hebrew ×ž×œ×š mlk is either the name of a god or the name of a particular kind of sacrifice associated historically with Phoenician and related cultures in north Africa and the Levant.

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