403 The image of Molech was made of brass. It was hollow within and heated with fire outside. It stood in the valley of Hinnom without the walls of Jerusalem. Kimchi says the image of Molech contained seven chapels. These chapels are supposed by some to represent the seven planets. In the first chapel flowers were offered; in the second, turtle doves or young pigeons; in the third, lambs; in the fourth, rams; in the fifth, calves; in the sixth, oxen; “but whosoever offered his son, they opened to him the seventh chapel.” The face of Molech was like the face of a calf, and the image stretched forth its hands “as a man who opens his hands to receive something of his neighbor.” “They kindled the image with fire, and the priests took the babe and put it into the hands of Molech, and the babe gave up the ghost.” They called it Tophet; because they made a noise with drums (“tophim”), that the father might not hear the screams of his child and have pity upon him. And they called it Hinnom, because the child roared (“menahem”) in his anguish. Others say it was called Hinnom, because the priests used to say, “May it profit thee—may it be sweet to thee.” 404 Cutting off is generally supposed to have extended to the family as well as the guilty person. It seems to have included the future as well as the present life. 405 Deut. xxi. 18. 406 Deut. xxi. 20. 407 Prov. xxiii. 20. 408 Deut. xxi. 19, 20. _ 409 I.e._, they are saved from crime by immediately depriving them of life. This summary mode of procedure was called “the rebel’s beating.” It was a kind of lynch law inflicted by the people at once. John viii. 59. 410 As the former class of intending criminals could at once be killed, so this latter class must be guilty of the act, and they are then judged for it. 411 Isa. xxx. 20. 412 Isa. lx. 21. 413 Literally, outside. 414 Exod. xv. 26. _ 415 I.e._, to meditate with the intention to mutter JEHOVAH over a wound. 416 2 Chron. xxxiii. 13. 417 Gen. vi. 3. 418 Gen. xi. 8. 419 Gen. xiii. 13. 420 Ps. i. 5. 421 Num. xiv. 37. 422 Num. xiv. 35. 423 Ps. l. 5. 424 Num. xvi. 33. 425 1 Sam. ii. 6. 426 Deut. xxix. 28. 427 Deut. xiii. 13. 428 Deut. xiii. 15. 429 Deut. xiii. 16. 430 Deut. xiii. 17. 431 Deut. xxiv. 7. 432 Deut. xvii. 8. 433 Deut. xvii. 10. 434 Deut. xvii. 12. 435 Now called Yebna. 436 Deut. xvii. 13. 437 Deut. xviii. 19. 438 Literally, strange worship. It chiefly means the worship of the stars and other heavenly bodies. 439 Jer. xxxiv. 5. 440 Or sugar-cane. 441 For executions. 442 For races. 443 Where harangues were delivered involving life and death. 444 Nor graves. 445 Deut. vii. 26.