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 Thir altars by his altar, gods ador'd Among the nations round, and durst abide Jehovah thundring out of Sion, thron'd Between the Cherubim; yea often plac'd With in his sanctuary it selfe thir shrines, Abominations; and with cursed things His holy rites, and solemn feasts profan'd, And with thir darknesse durst affront his light. First Moloch, horrid king besmear'd with blood Of human sacrifice, and parents teares, Though, for the noise of drums & timbrells loud Thir childrens cries unheard, that past through fire To his grim Idol. Him the Ammonite Worshipt in Rabba and her watry plain, In Argob, and in Basan, to the stream Of utmost Arnon. Nor content with such Audacious neighbourhood, the wisest heart Of Solomon hee led by fraud to build His temple right against the temple of God On that opprobrious hill, and made his grove The pleasant vally of Hinnom, Tophet thence, And black Gehenna call'd, the type of Hell. Next Chemos, th' obscene dread of Moabs sons, From Aroer to Nebo, and the wild