2 Kings 1:14

1:14 Indeed, 1  fire came down from the sky and consumed the two captains who came before me, along with their men. 2  So now, please have respect for my life.”

2 Kings 17:31

17:31 the Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak, 3  and the Sepharvites burned their sons in the fire as an offering to Adrammelech and Anammelech, 4  the gods of Sepharvaim.

2 Kings 23:10

23:10 The king 5  ruined Topheth in the Valley of Ben Hinnom so that no one could pass his son or his daughter through the fire to Molech. 6 

1 tn Heb “look.”

2 tn Heb “their fifty.”

3 sn Nibhaz and Tartak were two Elamite deities. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 212.

4 sn Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of the Sepharvaim are unknown in extra-biblical literature. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 212.

5 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

6 sn Attempts to identify this deity with a god known from the ancient Near East have not yet yielded a consensus. For brief discussions see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor II Kings (AB), 288 and HALOT 592 s.v. מֹלֶךְ. For more extensive studies see George C. Heider, The Cult of Molek, and John Day, Molech: A God of Human Sacrifice in the Old Testament.