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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Tophet (Valley of Hinnom)
The place in the Valley of Hinnom where children were burned to Molech, until Josiah defiled it. Jeremiah said the valley would fill with the dead. Later Jewish pictures of Gehenna drew on it.
The place in the Valley of Hinnom where children were burned to Molech, until Josiah defiled it. Jeremiah said the valley would fill with the dead. Later Jewish pictures of Gehenna drew on it.
Tophet was a site in the Valley of Hinnom outside Jerusalem where children were burned as sacrifices to the god Molech, a practice Josiah defiled and abolished during his reforms. Jeremiah repeatedly condemns Tophet and warns that the valley would itself become a place of slaughter and burial in judgment. Its grim associations with fire and destruction contributed to later Jewish imagery of Gehenna as a place of punishment.
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- 2 Kings 23:10
- Jeremiah 7:31
- Jeremiah 7:32
- Jeremiah 19:6
- Jeremiah 19:11
- Jeremiah 19:12
- Jeremiah 19:13
- Jeremiah 19:14
- Isaiah 30:33
