Milcom

[2] In the Masoretic Text, the name Milcom occurs three times, in each case in a list of foreign deities whose worship is offensive to Yahweh, the god of the Israelites.

The name occurs several additional times in the Septuagint: 2 Samuel 12:30, 1 Chronicles 20:2, Amos 1:15, Jeremiah 40 (=30):1.3, Zephaniah 1:5, and 1 Kings 11:7.

[10] The Amman Citadel Inscription (c. 9th or 8th century BCE), as it has been reconstructed, contains an oracle from Milcom,[11] while the name is also mentioned on the Tell el-Mazar ostracon.

[3] However, in Ammonite theophoric names, El, the chief god of the Canaanite pantheon, appears more frequently than Milcom.

[14] A deity named MLKM is mentioned in a bilingual Canaanite–Ancient North Arabian inscription discovered at Qasr Bayir, which has been identified by some as Milcom.

[19][4] As further evidence against identifying Milcom with Moloch, E. Puech notes that both are portrayed as having separate places of worship in Jerusalem in the Bible.

Statue potentially depicting Milcom or a deified Ammonite ruler as Milcom, 8th century BCE. [ 1 ]