{\b And ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch,\par\tab And the star of the god Rephan,\par\tab The figures which ye made to worship them:\par\tab And I will carry you away beyond Babylon.}
And he made his son to pass through the fire, and practised augury, and used enchantments, and dealt with them that had familiar spirits, and with wizards: he wrought much evil in the sight of Jehovah, to provoke him to anger.
In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away unto Assyria, and placed them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
Then did Solomon build a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, in the mount that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech the abomination of the children of Ammon.
And they built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through {\i the fire} unto Molech; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.\par