 The Bible asserts that children were sacrificed at a place called the tophet ("roasting place") to the god Moloch.According to Diodorus Siculus' "Bibliotheca historica", "There was in their city a bronze image of Cronus extending its hands, palms up and sloping toward the ground, so that each of the children when placed thereon rolled down and fell into a sort of gaping pit filled with fire.