("their king".) Another form of Milcom and Moloch, the idol of Moab and Ammon (Zep 1:5; Jer 49:1-3; Am 1:15).
About the children of Ammon. These are the words of the Lord: Has Israel no sons? has he no one to take the heritage? why then has Milcom taken Gad for himself, putting his people in its towns? Because of this, see, the days are coming when I will have a cry of war sounded against Rabbah, the town of the children of Ammon; it will become a waste of broken walls, and her daughter-towns will be burned with fire: then Israel will take the heritage of those who took his heritage, says the Lord. read more. Make sounds of grief, O Heshbon, for Ai is wasted; give loud cries, O daughters of Rabbah, and put haircloth round you: give yourselves to weeping, running here and there and wounding yourselves; for Milcom will be taken prisoner together with his rulers and his priests.
And their king will be made prisoner, he and his captains together, says the Lord.
And the worshippers of the army of heaven on the house-tops, and the Lord's worshippers who take oaths by Milcom,
Mal'cham
1. Son of Shaharaim, a Benjamite. 1Ch 8:9.
2. An idol worshipped by some Jews who also professed to worship Jehovah. Zep 1:5. Some judge it to have been the same as Molech.
And by Hodesh his wife he became the father of Jobab and Zibia and Mesha and Malcam.
And the worshippers of the army of heaven on the house-tops, and the Lord's worshippers who take oaths by Milcom,
Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden of the Orthological Institute - public domain