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Unique among the Canaanites, the Hebrew tribes did not kill their children -- no abortions, no "crying rock", no Moloch's furnace.
December 8th, 2008 m_francis 2008
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The priest would work the chains, Moloch's hand would raise and the child would slide into his mouth.
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Even Moloch's lurid furnace was easier than the death promised by this rending and ripping vibration that armed sound waves with venomed talons.
The Moon of Skulls Howard, Robert E. 2005
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Wolf, his father's friend, in spite of Theoda's and his mother's tears, he worships at Moloch's feet together with the majority of his followers.
The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas Charles Annesley
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Theoda follows him into exile, while Teut joins in the solemn procession to Moloch's temple.
The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas Charles Annesley
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The sacrificing of children to idols, a not uncommon practice in some renowned countries of antiquity, the highest-born children being the favorite victims, -- for Moloch's appetite was delicate, -- could never have taken place in any country where the voice of Nature was heeded; and yet those sacrifices were but so many proofs of the existence of a spirit of pride, which caused men to offer up their offspring on the domestic altar.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864 Various
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Moloch's Sacrifice of the Altar - does such a bumptious and preposterous baggage fill the newspapers with her pishposh and the largest theater in Manhattan with eager dunderheads?
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The chief feature of Moloch's worship among the Jews seems to have been the sacrifice of children, and the usual expression for describing that sacrifice was "to pass through the fire", a rite carried out after the victims had been put to death.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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Belial, who though timorous and slothful, was a persuasive orator, denounced Moloch's plan.
National Epics Kate Milner Rabb 1901
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Yet Milton's consciousness of the situation as it really would be is such that Beelzebub does not dare to revive Moloch's defeated policy of war.
Milton John Cann Bailey 1897
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