Imamat 20:3

20:3 I myself will set my face ¹  against that man and cut him off from the midst of his people, ²  because he has given some of his children to Molech and thereby defiled my sanctuary and profaned my holy name. ³ 

Imamat 20:2

20:2 “You are to say to the Israelites, ‘Any man from the Israelites or from the foreigners who reside in Israel ⁴  who gives any of his children ⁵  to Molech ⁶  must be put to death; the people of the land must pelt him with stones. ⁷ 

1 Samuel 12:14

12:14 If you fear the Lord, serving him and obeying him ⁸  and not rebelling against what he says, ⁹  and if both you and the king who rules over you follow the Lord your God, all will be well. ¹⁰ 

Yehezkiel 36:20

36:20 But when they arrived in the nations where they went, they profaned my holy name. It was said of them, ‘These are the people of the Lord, yet they have departed from his land.’

Roma 2:24

2:24 For just as it is written, “the name of God is being blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.” ¹¹ 

[20:3]  ¹ tn Heb “And I, I shall give my faces.”

[20:3]  ² sn On the “cut off” penalty see the notes on Lev 7:20 and 17:4.

[20:3]  ³ tn Heb “for the sake of defiling my sanctuary and to profane my holy name.”

[20:2]  ⁴ tn Heb “or from the sojourner who sojourns”; NAB “an alien residing in Israel.”

[20:2]  ⁵ tn Heb “his seed” (so KJV, ASV); likewise in vv. 3-4.

[20:2]  ⁶ tn Regarding Molech and Molech worship see the note on Lev 18:21.

[20:2]  ⁷ tn This is not the most frequently-used Hebrew verb for stoning (see instead סָקַל, saqal), but a word that refers to the action of throwing, slinging, or pelting someone with stones (רָגָם, ragam; see HALOT 1187 s.v. רגם qal.a, and B. A. Levine, Leviticus [JPSTC], 136).

[12:14]  ⁸ tn Heb “and you listen to his voice.”

[12:14]  ⁹ tn Heb “the mouth of the Lord.” So also in v. 15.

[12:14]  ¹⁰ tn The words “all will be well” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[2:24]  ¹¹ sn A quotation from Isa 52:5.