Bible Person
Meaning: their king · Male · 3 cross references
Milcom is the god of the Ammonites named in the accounts of Solomon's compromise and Josiah's later reforms. He appears not as a human person but as a rival cult figure drawing Israel toward idolatry. First appears in 1 Kgs 11:5.1
AI summary: Milcom matters because the cross references trace the arc from tolerated royal apostasy under Solomon to decisive cleansing under Josiah. His name marks the pull of surrounding worship systems that threatened covenant fidelity from within Israel's leadership itself. Taken together, the material presents Milcom as a symbol of foreign religious pressure and of the recurring need for reform in Judah.1
Central Figure
Milcom
Meaning: their king
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Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.