What Does the Bible Say About Molek?

1 Kings 11:7 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Molech the abomination of the Ammonites, on the mountain east of Jerusalem.

Leviticus 20:2 ESV / 6 helpful votes

“Say to the people of Israel, Any one of the people of Israel or of the strangers who sojourn in Israel who gives any of his children to Molech shall surely be put to death. The people of the land shall stone him with stones.

Leviticus 18:21 ESV / 5 helpful votes

You shall not give any of your children to offer them to Molech, and so profane the name of your God: I am the Lord.

1 Corinthians 14:33 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For God is not a God of confusion but of peace. As in all the churches of the saints,

John 3:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Isaiah 54:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes

For your Maker is your husband, the Lord of hosts is his name; and the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer, the God of the whole earth he is called.

1 Kings 11:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes

For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.

Deuteronomy 22:22 ESV / 3 helpful votes

“If a man is found lying with the wife of another man, both of them shall die, the man who lay with the woman, and the woman. So you shall purge the evil from Israel.

Deuteronomy 22:13-24 ESV / 3 helpful votes

“If any man takes a wife and goes in to her and then hates her and accuses her of misconduct and brings a bad name upon her, saying, ‘I took this woman, and when I came near her, I did not find in her evidence of virginity,’ then the father of the young woman and her mother shall take and bring out the evidence of her virginity to the elders of the city in the gate. And the father of the young woman shall say to the elders, ‘I gave my daughter to this man to marry, and he hates her; and behold, he has accused her of misconduct, saying, “I did not find in your daughter evidence of virginity.” And yet this is the evidence of my daughter's virginity.’ And they shall spread the cloak before the elders of the city. ...

John 15:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

John 3:14-15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in him may have eternal life.

Proverbs 31:1-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The words of King Lemuel. An oracle that his mother taught him: What are you doing, my son? What are you doing, son of my womb? What are you doing, son of my vows? Do not give your strength to women, your ways to those who destroy kings. It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, or for rulers to take strong drink, lest they drink and forget what has been decreed and pervert the rights of all the afflicted. ...

Genesis 1:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

1 John 1:9 ESV / 1 helpful vote

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 1 helpful vote

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

1 Timothy 3:15 ESV / 1 helpful vote

If I delay, you may know how one ought to behave in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, a pillar and buttress of the truth.

2 Corinthians 4:4 ESV / 1 helpful vote

In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

1 Corinthians 6:15 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never!

Romans 10:17 ESV / 1 helpful vote

So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.

Romans 5:12 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned—

John 18:20 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Jesus answered him, “I have spoken openly to the world. I have always taught in synagogues and in the temple, where all Jews come together. I have said nothing in secret.

John 8:58 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am.”

John 8:4-11 ESV / 1 helpful vote

They said to him, “Teacher, this woman has been caught in the act of adultery. Now in the Law, Moses commanded us to stone such women. So what do you say?” This they said to test him, that they might have some charge to bring against him. Jesus bent down and wrote with his finger on the ground. And as they continued to ask him, he stood up and said to them, “Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her.” And once more he bent down and wrote on the ground. ...

John 5:19 ESV / 1 helpful vote

So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of his own accord, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, that the Son does likewise.

John 4:24 ESV / 1 helpful vote

God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”

Luke 1:35 ESV / 1 helpful vote

And the angel answered her, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore the child to be born will be called holy—the Son of God.

Matthew 16:18 ESV / 1 helpful vote

And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

Matthew 10:25 ESV / 1 helpful vote

It is enough for the disciple to be like his teacher, and the servant like his master. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more will they malign those of his household.

Jeremiah 7:18 ESV / 1 helpful vote

The children gather wood, the fathers kindle fire, and the women knead dough, to make cakes for the queen of heaven. And they pour out drink offerings to other gods, to provoke me to anger.

Isaiah 42:17 ESV / 1 helpful vote

They are turned back and utterly put to shame, who trust in carved idols, who say to metal images, “You are our gods.”

Isaiah 42:8 ESV / 1 helpful vote

I am the Lord; that is my name; my glory I give to no other, nor my praise to carved idols.

Isaiah 9:6 ESV / 1 helpful vote

For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

Isaiah 5:1-30 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Let me sing for my beloved my love song concerning his vineyard: My beloved had a vineyard on a very fertile hill. He dug it and cleared it of stones, and planted it with choice vines; he built a watchtower in the midst of it, and hewed out a wine vat in it; and he looked for it to yield grapes, but it yielded wild grapes. And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, judge between me and my vineyard. What more was there to do for my vineyard, that I have not done in it? When I looked for it to yield grapes, why did it yield wild grapes? And now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard. I will remove its hedge, and it shall be devoured; I will break down its wall, and it shall be trampled down. ...

1 Kings 19:18 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Yet I will leave seven thousand in Israel, all the knees that have not bowed to Baal, and every mouth that has not kissed him.”

34 Bible Verses about Molek

1 Kings 11:7 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Leviticus 20:2 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Leviticus 18:21 ESV / 5 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 14:33 ESV / 4 helpful votes

John 3:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Isaiah 54:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Kings 11:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 22:22 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 22:13-24 ESV / 3 helpful votes

John 15:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 3:14-15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 31:1-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 1:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 John 1:9 ESV / 1 helpful vote

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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1 Corinthians 6:15 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Romans 10:17 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Romans 5:12 ESV / 1 helpful vote

John 18:20 ESV / 1 helpful vote

John 8:58 ESV / 1 helpful vote

John 8:4-11 ESV / 1 helpful vote

John 5:19 ESV / 1 helpful vote

John 4:24 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Luke 1:35 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Matthew 16:18 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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Jeremiah 7:18 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Isaiah 42:17 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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Isaiah 9:6 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Isaiah 5:1-30 ESV / 1 helpful vote

1 Kings 19:18 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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34 Bible Verses about Molek

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1 Kings 11:7 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Leviticus 20:2 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Leviticus 18:21 ESV / 5 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 14:33 ESV / 4 helpful votes

John 3:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Isaiah 54:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Kings 11:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 22:22 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 22:13-24 ESV / 3 helpful votes

John 15:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 3:14-15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 31:1-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 1:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 John 1:9 ESV / 1 helpful vote

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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2 Corinthians 4:4 ESV / 1 helpful vote

1 Corinthians 6:15 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Romans 10:17 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Romans 5:12 ESV / 1 helpful vote

John 18:20 ESV / 1 helpful vote

John 8:58 ESV / 1 helpful vote

John 8:4-11 ESV / 1 helpful vote

John 5:19 ESV / 1 helpful vote

John 4:24 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Luke 1:35 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Matthew 16:18 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Matthew 10:25 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Jeremiah 7:18 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Isaiah 42:17 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Isaiah 42:8 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Isaiah 9:6 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Isaiah 5:1-30 ESV / 1 helpful vote

1 Kings 19:18 ESV / 1 helpful vote