Note 580 — Chapter VI · THE MYTH OF CIVILISATION AND THE FIRST SHAPING OF HEBREW RELIGION.
R. (Russell) Martineau translation
No weight must be attached to the word malkekhem ‘your king,’ in which many have tried to find a datum for the high antiquity of the worship of Moloch by the Hebrews; for the suffix shows that the word cannot be taken as Môlekh, the name of a god. And the worship of that God appears everywhere as one borrowed from the Canaanites.