* offered him.
   In cases of great extremity, it was customary in various
   heathen nations, to offer human sacrifices, and even their own
   children.  This was frequent among the Phoenicians, Greeks,
   Romans, Scythians, Gauls, Africans, and others; and was the
   natural fruit of a religious system, which had for the objects
   of its worship cruel and merciless divinities.  The king of
   Moab, in this case, sacrificed his son to obtain the favour of
   Chemosh his god, who, being a devil, delighted in blood and
   murder, and the destruction of mankind.  The dearer any thing
   was to them, the more acceptable those idolaters thought the
   sacrifice, and therefore burnt their children in the fire to
   their honour.

  Ge 22:2,13  De 12:31  Jud 11:31,39  Ps 106:37,38  Eze 16:20 
  Mic 6:7 
 * they departed.
  1Sa 14:36-46  1Ki 20:13,28,43