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Hinnom in Naves Topical Bible

A valley west and southwest of Jerusalem Jos 15:8; 18:16; 2Ki 23:10; Ne 11:30 -Children offered in sacrifice in 2Ch 28:3; 33:6; Jer 7:31,32; 19:2,4,6; 32:35 -Possibly identical with the valley of the vision Isa 22:1,5...

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Hinnom Scripture - 2 Chronicles 33:6

And he caused his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom: also he observed times, and used enchantments, and used witchcraft, and dealt with a familiar spirit, and with wizards: he wrought much evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger....

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Hinnom in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(lamentation), Valley of, otherwise called "the valley of the son" or "children of Hinnom," a deep and narrow ravine, with steep, rocky sides, to the south and west of Jerusalem, separating Mount Zion to the north from the "hill of evil counsel," and the sloping rocky plateau of the "plain of Rephaim" to the south. The earliest mention of the ...

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Hinnom Scripture - Jeremiah 19:6

Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that this place shall no more be called Tophet, nor The valley of the son of Hinnom, but The valley of slaughter....

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Hinnom in Easton's Bible Dictionary

a deep, narrow ravine separating Mount Zion from the so- called "Hill of Evil Counsel." It took its name from "some ancient hero, the son of Hinnom." It is first mentioned in Josh. 15:8. It had been the place where the idolatrous Jews burned their children alive to Moloch and Baal. A particular part of the valley was called Tophet, or the ...

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Hinnom Scripture - Jeremiah 32:35

And they built the high places of Baal, which [are] in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through [the fire] unto Molech; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin....

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Hinnom Scripture - Jeremiah 7:31

And they have built the high places of Tophet, which [is] in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded [them] not, neither came it into my heart....

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Hinnom in Hitchcock's Bible Names

there they are; their riches...

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Hinnom Scripture - 2 Kings 23:10

And he defiled Topheth, which [is] in the valley of the children of Hinnom, that no man might make his son or his daughter to pass through the fire to Molech....

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Hinnom in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

(See HELL.) "The son of Hinnom" was some ancient hero who encamped there (Stanley, Sinai and Israel, 172). S.W. and S. of Jerusalem; from 50 to 100 yards wide at the sweep round the S.W. corner of the so-called mount Zion. An aqueduct on nine low arches, 290) yards from the Jaffa gate, crosses the valley, and conveys water from "the pools of S...

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