Despite occasional efforts by godly kings, worship of Moloch wasn't abolished until the Israelites' captivity in Babylon.
Like the Moloch god of antiquity,
this monstrous, cold and impersonal machine has devoured the substance of civil society and man.
When a couple sacrificed their firstborn, they believed that Moloch would ensure financial prosperity for the family and future children.
When a couple succeeded with the sacrifice, they believed that Moloch would ensure financial prosperity for the family and future children.
But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images,
the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves.
Moloch worship occurred in the“high places”(1 Kings 12:31)
as well as a narrow ravine outside Jerusalem called the Valley of Hinnom(2 Kings 23:10).
Even Solomon, the wisest king,
was swayed by this cult and built places of worship for Moloch and other gods(1 Kings 11:1- 8).
Rorschach's concerns appear vindicated when Veidt narrowly survives an
assassination attempt and Rorschach himself is framed and imprisoned for murdering a former supervillain named Moloch.