passe through] The children dedicated to the Idoll Molech, passe through two fires, made on each side their way to it, that by that passage they may be purged, and so prepared for a sacrifice to the Idoll: all but the head of this Idoll represented a man, and being made of brasse, and hollow, fire was put into it, and children put into the armes of it; wherein with the burning heat they were tormented to death, while their deluded parents danced about them, with the noise of Drums, and other loud Instruments, which might out-sound their lamentable cries. This Idoll was called sometimes Molech, and sometimes Moloch, Amos 5:27. sometimes Melchom; all having a conformitie in sense and sound with Melech, a King: and this was the principall Idoll of the Ammonites, 1 Kings 11:7. and of their neighbours the Phoenicians, and from thence it came unto the Canaanites, called also Baal: compare 2 Kings 23:10. Jeremiah 19:5. & Chap. 7. 31. & Chap. 32. 35. profane the Name] That is, dishonour it by departing from God, to serve such an Idoll, in such an abominable manner. See Jeremiah 2:7-8. Romans 2:24.