Ben Built Burn Burning Command Commanded Daughters Didn't Enter Fire Heart Hinnom Mind Ordered Places Sons Tophet Topheth Valley
7:31 And they have built the high places of {q} Tophet, which [is] in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I {r} commanded [them] not, neither came it into my heart.
(q) Of Topheth, read 2Ki 23:10.
(r) But commanded the opposite, as in Le 18:21,20:3, De 18:10.
7:31 Tophet - It comes from Toph, a drum, because they beat drums to drown the children's screeches, when they burnt them in sacrifice upon the altars, called here high places, to Moloch. Tophet was situate in a pleasant valley near Jerusalem, a place in the possession of the children of one Hinnom, Josh 15:8.
7:29-34 In token both of sorrow and of slavery, Jerusalem must be degraded, and separated from God, as she had been separated to him. The heart is the place in which God has chosen to put his name; but if sin has the innermost and uppermost place there, we pollute the temple of the Lord. The destruction of Jerusalem appears here very terrible. The slain shall be many; they having made it the place of their sin. Evil pursues sinners, even after death. Those who will not, by the grace of God, be cured of vain mirth, shall, by the justice of God, be deprived of all mirth. How many ruin their health and property without complaining, when engaged in Satan's service! May we learn to relish holy joys, and to sit loose to all others though lawful.
Ben Built Burn Burning Command Commanded Daughters Enter Fire Heart High Hinnom Mind Ordered Places Something Tophet Topheth Valley
Ben Built Burn Burning Command Commanded Daughters Enter Fire Heart High Hinnom Mind Ordered Places Something Tophet Topheth Valley
