Molech

And Luke, in Acts viii. 43., says, “Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of Molech.”

And he defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the children of Hinnom, that no man might make his son or his daughter to pass through the fire to Molech.

“He is not guilty till he hand it to Molech, and pass it through the fire.”

Children may once have “passed through fire to Molech” where now the heaving turf shrouds the skeleton of a decayed church.

If parents threw their children into the furnace to Molech, why should they not devote their daughters to Ishtar?