Are these real facts about Israel’s false gods?

The biblical concept of Molech as a pagan deity to whom Israelites sacrificed children is a later misunderstanding of Hebrew Bible passages that originally referred to child sacrifices offered to Adonai (the God of Israel); the term 'Molech' derives from an early Semitic noun 'mal' or 'malu' meaning a type of sacrifice, and the confusion arose from textual corruption in First Kings 11:7 where the patron deity of the Ammonites was actually Milcom, not Molech.