their king
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
MILCOM.The national deity of Ammon. Solomon established a sanctuary for him on the Mount of Olives, which seems to have continued till it was destroyed by Josiah (1Ki_11:5; 1Ki_11:33, 2Ki_23:13). In 2Sa_12:30, 1Ch_20:2, Jer_49:3, and Zep_1:5 Malcam (their king) is probably an incorrect vocalization of Milcom. The name is from the common Semitic root malk, melek (king or prince), probably with an Inflectional termination. The traditional identification of Milcom with Molech is based only upon 1Ki_11:7, a verse which is probably corrupt. See Molech.
W. M. Nesbit.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
1Ki_11:5; 1Ki_11:33. (See MOLOCH.) Also called Malcham (Zep_1:5).
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
Mil'com. (great king). See Molech.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
See MOLECH.
Bridgeway Bible Dictionary by Don Fleming
PRINTER 1990.
mil?kom, mil?kōm. See MOLECH.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Mil?com [MOLOCH]
The Popular Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature
by John Kitto.
Milcom
(Heb. Milkom', מַלְכֹּם, their king, 1Ki_11:5; Sept. Μελχώμ and Μελχόμ, Vulg. Moloch; 2Ki_23:13, Μολόχ, Melchom; also MALCHAM, Heb. Malkam', מִלְכָּם, id., Jer_49:1; Jer_49:3, Sept. Μελχόλ,Vulg. Melchom, their king; but this last is the proper rendering in Amo_1:15; Zep_1:5, in which latter passage the Auth. Vers. has Malcham), the principal deity of the Ammonites (Jer_49:1; Jer_49:3), for whose worship Solomon erected altars on the Mount of Olives, hence called the Hill of Offence (2Ki_23:13). Milcom is usually regarded as the same as Molech or Moloch, although the latter was worshipped in a different place and manner, namely, by the offering of children in the flames of the valley of Hinnom (see Keil, Comment. ad loc. Kings; Movers, Phon. page 324 sq.; Ewald, Isr. Gesch. 3:100). SEE MOLOCH.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.