seed. children.
pass through, &c. Hebrew "pass to Molech", i.e. into his arms, from which it passed through the fire to him.
Molech. Always has the article (except 1 Kings 11:7, which is probably. copyist's omission) denoting the king, or the king-idol (see Leviticus 18:21; Leviticus 20:2; Leviticus 20:3; Leviticus 20:4; Leviticus 20:5. See seq. 2 Kings 23:10; Jeremiah 32:35). The Massorites pointed it Molech, to assimilate it to "shameful thing", but omitted to do so in Isaiah 30:33 with Isaiah 57:9, which they left melech = king. It should read Molech in these two passages also.