And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Again, thou shalt say to the children of Israel, Whosoever he be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, that giveth any of his seed unto Molech; he shall surely be put to death: the people of the land shall stone him with stones.
Whosoever
Leviticus 17:8,13,15 And you shall say to them, Whatever man there be of the house of …
giveth
Leviticus 18:21 And you shall not let any of your seed pass through the fire to Molech, …
Deuteronomy 12:31 You shall not do so to the LORD your God: for every abomination to …
Deuteronomy 18:10 There shall not be found among you any one that makes his son or …
2 Kings 17:17 And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the …
2 Kings 23:10 And he defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the children of Hinnom…
2 Chronicles 28:3 Moreover he burnt incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and …
2 Chronicles 33:6 And he caused his children to pass through the fire in the valley …
Psalm 106:38 And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their …
Isaiah 57:5,6 Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the …
Jeremiah 7:31 And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the valley …
Jeremiah 32:35 And they built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of …
Ezekiel 16:20,21 Moreover you have taken your sons and your daughters, whom you have …
Ezekiel 20:26,31 And I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused to pass …
Ezekiel 23:37,39 That they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands, and …
Acts 7:43 Yes, you took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god …
Moloch or Molech
The Rabbins describe this idol as made of brass sitting upon a throne of the same metal, in the form of a man, with the head of a calf, adorned with a royal crown, and his arms extended as if to embrace any one. When they offered any children to him, they heated the statue by a great fire kindled within, and the victim was put into his arms, and thus consumed. Others relate, that the idol, which was hollow, was divided into seven compartments within; in one of which they put flour, in the second turtles, in the third a ewe, in the fourth a ram, in the fifth a calf, in the sixth an ox, and the seventh a child, where all burnt together by heating the statue inside. The account which Diodorus gives of the statue of Saturn, to which the Carthaginians, descendants of the Canaanites, sacrificed their children, is very similar. For they had a brazen stature of Saturn, stretching out his hands towards the ground, in such a manner that the children placed within them tumbled down into a pit full of fire. To this account, Milton alludes in PARADISE LOST, B.1:392.
the people
Leviticus 20:27 A man also or woman that has a familiar spirit, or that is a wizard, …
Leviticus 24:14,23 Bring forth him that has cursed without the camp; and let all that …
Numbers 15:35,36 And the LORD said to Moses, The man shall be surely put to death: …
Deuteronomy 13:10,11 And you shall stone him with stones, that he die; because he has …
Deuteronomy 17:5-7 Then shall you bring forth that man or that woman, which have committed …
Deuteronomy 21:21 And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he …
Acts 7:58,59 And cast him out of the city, and stoned him: and the witnesses laid …
And I will set my face against that man, and will cut him off from among his people; because he hath given of his seed unto Molech, to defile my sanctuary, and to profane my holy name.
I will set
Leviticus 10:10 And that you may put difference between holy and unholy, and between …
1 Peter 3:12 For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are …
to defile
Numbers 19:20 But the man that shall be unclean, and shall not purify himself, …
Ezekiel 5:11 Why, as I live, said the Lord GOD; Surely, because you have defiled …
Ezekiel 23:38,39 Moreover this they have done to me: they have defiled my sanctuary …
profane
Leviticus 18:21 And you shall not let any of your seed pass through the fire to Molech, …
Ezekiel 20:39 As for you, O house of Israel, thus said the Lord GOD; Go you, serve …
2 Corinthians 6:16 And what agreement has the temple of God with idols? for you are …
And if the people of the land do any ways hide their eyes from the man, when he giveth of his seed unto Molech, and kill him not:
Then I will set my face against that man, and against his family, and will cut him off, and all that go a whoring after him, to commit whoredom with Molech, from among their people.
And the soul that turneth after such as have familiar spirits, and after wizards, to go a whoring after them, I will even set my face against that soul, and will cut him off from among his people.
familiar
Leviticus 20:27 A man also or woman that has a familiar spirit, or that is a wizard, …
Leviticus 19:26,31 You shall not eat any thing with the blood: neither shall you use …
Deuteronomy 18:10-14 There shall not be found among you any one that makes his son or …
Isaiah 8:19 And when they shall say to you, Seek to them that have familiar spirits, …
go
Exodus 34:15,16 Lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they …
Numbers 15:39 And it shall be to you for a fringe, that you may look on it, and …
Psalm 73:27 For, see, they that are far from you shall perish: you have destroyed …
Ezekiel 6:9 And they that escape of you shall remember me among the nations where …
Hosea 4:12 My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declares to …
cut him
1 Chronicles 10:13,14 So Saul died for his transgression which he committed against the …
In the days of Moses, superstition was almost the {sensus communis} of the human race, which then made severe punishment necessary: by means of the Christian dispensation such errors are now exploded, the cultivation of philosophy and natural history having harmonised and contributed their feebler share of light, so that we no longer have to deplore mischiefs occasioned by the silly curiosity attempting to unfold future events.
Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy: for I am the LORD your God.
Leviticus 11:44 For I am the LORD your God: you shall therefore sanctify yourselves, …
Leviticus 19:2 Speak to all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say …
Ephesians 1:4 According as he has chosen us in him before the foundation of the …
Colossians 3:12 Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels …
1 Thessalonians 4:3,7 For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that you should …
Hebrews 12:14 Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall …
1 Peter 1:15,16 But as he which has called you is holy, so be you holy in all manner …
And ye shall keep my statutes, and do them: I am the LORD which sanctify you.
And ye
Leviticus 18:4,5 You shall do my judgments, and keep my ordinances, to walk therein: …
Leviticus 19:37 Therefore shall you observe all my statutes, and all my judgments, …
Matthew 5:19 Whoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and …
Matthew 7:24 Therefore whoever hears these sayings of mine, and does them, I will …
Matthew 12:50 For whoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the …
John 13:17 If you know these things, happy are you if you do them.
James 1:22 But be you doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
Revelation 22:14 Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right …
sanctify
Leviticus 21:8 You shall sanctify him therefore; for he offers the bread of your …
Exodus 31:13 Speak you also to the children of Israel, saying, Truly my sabbaths …
Ezekiel 20:12 Moreover also I gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign between me and …
Ezekiel 37:28 And the heathen shall know that I the LORD do sanctify Israel, when …
1 Corinthians 1:30 But of him are you in Christ Jesus, who of God is made to us wisdom, …
1 Thessalonians 5:23 And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly…
2 Thessalonians 2:13 But we are bound to give thanks always to God for you, brothers beloved …
For every one that curseth his father or his mother shall be surely put to death: he hath cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.
curseth The term {yekallel} signifies not only to curse, but to speak contemptuously, disrespectfully, or to make light of a person: so that all speeches which have a tendency to lessen our parents in the eyes of others, or to render their judgment, piety, etc., suspected or contemptible, is her included; though the act of cursing, or of treating the parent with injurious or opprobrious language, is what is particularly intended. He who conscientiously keeps the {fifth} commandment, can be in no danger of the judgment here denounced.
Exodus 21:17 And he that curses his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death.
Deuteronomy 27:16 Cursed be he that sets light by his father or his mother. And all …
Proverbs 20:20 Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out …
Proverbs 30:11,17 There is a generation that curses their father, and does not bless …
Matthew 15:4 For God commanded, saying, Honor your father and mother: and, He …
Mark 7:10 For Moses said, Honor your father and your mother; and, Whoever curses …
his blood
Leviticus 20:11-13,16,27 And the man that lies with his father's wife has uncovered his father's …
Joshua 2:19 And it shall be, that whoever shall go out of the doors of your house …
Judges 9:24 That the cruelty done to the three score and ten sons of Jerubbaal …
2 Samuel 1:16 And David said to him, Your blood be on your head; for your mouth …
1 Kings 2:32 And the LORD shall return his blood on his own head, who fell on …
Matthew 27:25 Then answered all the people, and said, His blood be on us, and on our children.
And the man that committeth adultery with another man's wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbour's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.
And the man that lieth with his father's wife hath uncovered his father's nakedness: both of them shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
And if a man lie with his daughter in law, both of them shall surely be put to death: they have wrought confusion; their blood shall be upon them.
If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
Leviticus 18:22 You shall not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.
Genesis 19:5 And they called to Lot, and said to him, Where are the men which …
Deuteronomy 23:17 There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite …
Judges 19:22 Now as they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the …
Romans 1:26,27 For this cause God gave them up to vile affections: for even their …
1 Corinthians 6:9 Know you not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of …
1 Timothy 1:10 For fornicators, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for …
Jude 1:7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, …
And if a man take a wife and her mother, it is wickedness: they shall be burnt with fire, both he and they; that there be no wickedness among you.
And if a man lie with a beast, he shall surely be put to death: and ye shall slay the beast.
And if a woman approach unto any beast, and lie down thereto, thou shalt kill the woman, and the beast: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
And if a man shall take his sister, his father's daughter, or his mother's daughter, and see her nakedness, and she see his nakedness; it is a wicked thing; and they shall be cut off in the sight of their people: he hath uncovered his sister's nakedness; he shall bear his iniquity.
And if a man shall lie with a woman having her sickness, and shall uncover her nakedness; he hath discovered her fountain, and she hath uncovered the fountain of her blood: and both of them shall be cut off from among their people.
And thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother's sister, nor of thy father's sister: for he uncovereth his near kin: they shall bear their iniquity.
And if a man shall lie with his uncle's wife, he hath uncovered his uncle's nakedness: they shall bear their sin; they shall die childless.
uncle's wife
Leviticus 18:14 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's brother, you …
childless
Job 18:19 He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any remaining …
Psalm 109:13 Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let …
Jeremiah 22:30 Thus said the LORD, Write you this man childless, a man that shall …
Luke 1:7,25 And they had no child, because that Elisabeth was barren, and they …
Luke 23:29 For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed …
And if a man shall take his brother's wife, it is an unclean thing: he hath uncovered his brother's nakedness; they shall be childless.
Ye shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: that the land, whither I bring you to dwell therein, spue you not out.
statues
Leviticus 18:4,5,26 You shall do my judgments, and keep my ordinances, to walk therein: …
Leviticus 19:37 Therefore shall you observe all my statutes, and all my judgments, …
Psalm 19:8-11 The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment …
Psalm 105:45 That they might observe his statutes, and keep his laws. Praise you the LORD.
Psalm 119:80,145,171 Let my heart be sound in your statutes; that I be not ashamed…
Ezekiel 36:27 And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my …
judgments
Exodus 21:1 Now these are the judgments which you shall set before them.
Deuteronomy 4:45 These are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which …
Deuteronomy 5:1 And Moses called all Israel, and said to them, Hear, O Israel, the …
Psalm 119:20,106,160,164,175 My soul breaks for the longing that it has to your judgments at all times…
Isaiah 26:8,9 Yes, in the way of your judgments, O LORD, have we waited for you; …
spue you
Leviticus 18:25-28 And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof …
Leviticus 26:33 And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword …
Deuteronomy 28:25,26 The LORD shall cause you to be smitten before your enemies: you shall …
And ye shall not walk in the manners of the nation, which I cast out before you: for they committed all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.
in the manners
Leviticus 18:3,24,30 After the doings of the land of Egypt, wherein you dwelled, shall …
Deuteronomy 12:30,31 Take heed to yourself that you be not snared by following them, after …
Jeremiah 10:1,2 Hear you the word which the LORD speaks to you, O house of Israel…
therefore
Leviticus 18:27 (For all these abominations have the men of the land done, which …
Deuteronomy 9:5 Not for your righteousness, or for the uprightness of your heart, …
Psalm 78:59 When God heard this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:
Zechariah 11:8 Three shepherds also I cut off in one month; and my soul loathed …
But I have said unto you, Ye shall inherit their land, and I will give it unto you to possess it, a land that floweth with milk and honey: I am the LORD your God, which have separated you from other people.
But I
Exodus 3:8,17 And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, …
Exodus 6:8 And I will bring you in to the land, concerning the which I did swear …
a land Milk and honey were the chief dainties of the ancients as they are now among the Arabs, particularly the Bedouins. Hence not only the Hebrews, but also the Greeks and Romans, painted the highest pleasantness and fertility by an abundance of milk and honey. The image used in the text, and frequently by ancient authors on similar subjects, is a metaphor, derived from a {breast}, producing copious streams of milk.
Leviticus 20:26 And you shall be holy to me: for I the LORD am holy, and have severed …
Exodus 19:5,6 Now therefore, if you will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, …
Exodus 33:16 For wherein shall it be known here that I and your people have found …
Numbers 23:9 For from the top of the rocks I see him, and from the hills I behold …
Deuteronomy 7:6 For you are an holy people to the LORD your God: the LORD your God …
Deuteronomy 14:2 For you are an holy people to the LORD your God, and the LORD has …
1 Kings 8:53 For you did separate them from among all the people of the earth, …
John 15:19 If you were of the world, the world would love his own: but because …
2 Corinthians 6:17 Why come out from among them, and be you separate, said the Lord, …
1 Peter 2:9 But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, …
Ye shall therefore put difference between clean beasts and unclean, and between unclean fowls and clean: and ye shall not make your souls abominable by beast, or by fowl, or by any manner of living thing that creepeth on the ground, which I have separated from you as unclean.
And ye shall be holy unto me: for I the LORD am holy, and have severed you from other people, that ye should be mine.
the Lord
Leviticus 20:7 Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be you holy: for I am the LORD your God.
Leviticus 19:2 Speak to all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say …
Psalm 99:5,9 Exalt you the LORD our God, and worship at his footstool; for he is holy…
Isaiah 6:3 And one cried to another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD …
Isaiah 30:11 Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy …
1 Peter 1:15,16 But as he which has called you is holy, so be you holy in all manner …
Revelation 3:7 And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things …
Revelation 4:8 And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they …
severed
Leviticus 20:24 But I have said to you, You shall inherit their land, and I will …
Deuteronomy 7:6 For you are an holy people to the LORD your God: the LORD your God …
Deuteronomy 14:2 For you are an holy people to the LORD your God, and the LORD has …
Deuteronomy 26:18,19 And the LORD has avouched you this day to be his peculiar people, …
Titus 2:14 Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, …
A man also or woman that hath a familiar spirit, or that is a wizard, shall surely be put to death: they shall stone them with stones: their blood shall be upon them.
