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.
Ver. 2. That giveth any of his seed unto Moloch.] See Trapp on " Lev 18:21 " Lactantius reports out of "Pescennius Festus," that the Carthaginians being overcome by Agathocles king of Sicily, and fearing lest their slackness in the service of Saturn - who is thought to be the same with Moloch - was the cause, offered unto him for a sacrifice no fewer than four hundred young gentlemen at once.