Moloch

Also known as: horrid king · Family: Hell · Role: fallen spirit and idol · First appears: Book 1

Life events

Moloch seduces Solomon into building a rival temple and establishing idolatrous worship.(Book1 · 📍 Hinnom)
- With: Solomon
- “Nor content with such Audacious neighbourhood, the wisest heart Of Solomon he led by fraud to build His temple right against the temple of God On that opprobrious hill, and made his grove The pleasant valley of Hinnom, Tophet thence And black Gehenna called, the type of Hell.”
Heaven’s commanders defeat Moloch, Adramelech, Asmadai, Ariel, Arioch, and Ramiel in battle.(Book6 · 📍 Heaven)
- With: Gabriel Uriel Raphael Adramelech Asmadai Abdiel Ariel Arioch Ramiel
- “Mean while in other parts like deeds deserved Memorial, where the might of Gabriel fought, And with fierce ensigns pierced the deep array Of Moloch, furious king; who him defied, And at his chariot-wheels to drag him bound Threatened, nor from the Holy One of Heaven Refrained his tongue blasphemous; but anon Down cloven to the waist, with shattered arms And uncouth pain fled bellowing. On each wing Uriel, and Raphael, his vaunting foe, Though huge, and in a rock of diamond armed, Vanquished Adramelech, and Asmadai, Two potent Thrones, that to be less than Gods Disdained, but meaner thoughts learned in their flight, Mangled with ghastly wounds through plate and mail. Nor stood unmindful Abdiel to annoy The atheist crew, but with redoubled blow Ariel, and Arioch, and the violence Of Ramiel scorched and blasted, overthrew.”

tempted: Solomon “Nor content with such Audacious neighbourhood, the wisest heart Of Solomon he led by fraud to build His temple right against the temple of God”
worshipper: Solomon “His temple right against the temple of God on that opprobrious hill, and made his grove The pleasant valley of Hinnom”

sovereign: God “He ended frowning, and his look denounced Desperate revenge, and battle dangerous To less than gods.”

enemies with Gabriel “where the might of Gabriel fought, / And with fierce ensigns pierced the deep array / Of Moloch, furious king; who him defied”

Extracted from the original text of Paradise Lost. Made with Rho MD.