Tophet
to'-feth (ha-topheth, etymology uncertain; the most probable
is its connection with a root meaning "burning"--the "place of
burning"; the King James Version, Tophet, except in 2 Ki
23:10): The references are to such a place: "They have built
the high places of Topheth, which is in the valley of the son
of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their d...
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Also called TOPHETH
-A place in the valley of the sons of Hinnom
2Ki 23:10
-Jewish children passed through the fire to the god Molech in
2Ki 23:10; Jer 7:31,32; 19:6,11-14; 32:35
-See also
2Ch 28:3; 33:6
-Destroyed by Josiah
2Ki 23:10
-Horror of
Isa 30:33...
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and once To'phet (place of burning), was in the southeast
extremity of the "valley of the son of Hinnom," Jer 7:31
which is "by the entry of the east gate." Jer 19:2 The
locality of Hinnom is to have been elsewhere. [HINNOM] It
seems also to have been part of the king's gardens, and
watered by Siloam, perhaps a little to the south of the
pres...
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=Topheth, from Heb. toph "a drum," because the cries of
children
here sacrificed by the priests of Moloch were
drowned by the
noise of such an instrument; or from taph or toph,
meaning "to
burn," and hence a place of burning, the name of a
particular
part in the valley of Hinnom. "Fire being the most
destructive
of all elements, is chosen...
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A spot in the valley of the son of Hinnom; S.E. and S.S.E.
of Jerusalem; "by the entry of the E. gate" (Jeremiah 19:2).
frontHINNOM.) Infamous by the immolation in it of children
to Moloch (2 Kings 23:10; Isaiah 30:33; Jeremiah 7:31-32;
Jeremiah 19:2; Jeremiah 19:6; Jeremiah 19:11). (See HELL.)
From toph, the "drums" beaten to drown the shriek...
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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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And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of
Judah, shall be defiled as the place of Tophet, because of all
the houses upon whose roofs they have burned incense unto all
the host of heaven, and have poured out drink offerings unto
other gods....
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And shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Even so
will I break this people and this city, as [one] breaketh a
potter's vessel, that cannot be made whole again: and they
shall bury [them] in Tophet, till [there be] no place to bury....
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For Tophet [is] ordained of old; yea, for the king it is
prepared; he hath made [it] deep [and] large: the pile thereof
[is] fire and much wood; the breath of the LORD, like a stream
of brimstone, doth kindle it....
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