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Jeremiah 7:31

JEREMIAH—NOTE ON Jeremiah 7:31 high places of Topheth... Hinnom. See 2 Kings 23:10; Isaiah 30:33; Jeremiah 19:6. Children were burned alive at these places as sacrifices to Molech and other gods, even though human sacrifice was banned in the law (Leviticus 20:2). God hated this practice. Child sacrifice was practiced by Canaanites and Phoenicians. The offering of children, especially the firstborn, was seen as a means of manipulating their false deities.

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See also Jeremiah 7:31 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Jeremiah 7:31. _TOPHET - IN THE VALLEY OF THE SON OF HINNOM_] Tophet was the place in that valley where the continual fires were kept up, in and through which they consecrated their children to...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    Jeremiah summons the people to lament over the miserable consequences of their rejection of God. In the valley of Hinnom, where lately they offered their innocents, they shall themselves fall before t...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    THE PROPHET'S TEMPLE ADDRESS (7-9) CHAPTER 7 _ 1. Amend your ways and your doings (Jeremiah 7:1) _ 2. No prayer-answer to be expected (Jeremiah 7:16) 3. Sacrifices rejected; Obedience demanded (J

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    JEREMIAH 7:29 TO JEREMIAH 8:3. MOURNING FOR JUDAH'S DEAD. Let Jerusalem mourn, and raise a dirge on the heights (where she sinned by her idolatry), because of the near approach of the punishment for t...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    HIGH PLACES. IDOLATROUS PLACES. Not the same word as Jeremiah 7:29. TOPHET. In the valley of the son of Hinnom (2 Kings 23:10; Isaiah 30:33.

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _high places_ read _high place_. There would not be more than one altar in Topheth. So LXX and Targ. _Topheth_ This probably is not the original vocalisation (LXX Ταφέθ), though the latter cannot be d...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    For a recurrence of the substance of this passage see ch. Jeremiah 19:5 f., Jeremiah 19:11....

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    THE HIGH PLACES OF TOPHET— The valley of Hinnom, or of the son of Hinnom, was near Jerusalem, and was the scene of those horrid sacrifices which the Israelites, in imitation of their idolatrous neighb...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    IV. POLLUTED WORSHIP Jeremiah 7:29 to Jeremiah 8:3 Again Jeremiah takes up the subject of paganized worship. He speaks of the present defilement of the population of Jerusalem (Jeremiah 7:29), of the...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    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 hea...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    1-20. Ceremonies and sacred places shall be no defence....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    VALLEY OF HINNOM] on the W. and S. sides of the city, Tophet being near the E. extremity of the S. reach. The valley had an evil name, (_a_) as the place of human sacrifices; (_b_) as defiled by Josia...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    HIGH PLACES. — Not the same word as in Jeremiah 7:29, but _bamoth,_ as in the “high places” of Baal, in Numbers 22:41; Numbers 23:3, the Bamoth-baal of...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וּ בָנ֞וּ בָּמֹ֣ות הַ תֹּ֗פֶת אֲשֶׁר֙ בְּ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    Jeremiah 8:1; Jeremiah 9:1; Jeremiah 10:1; Jeremiah 26:1 In the four Chapter s which we are now to consider we have what is plainly a fin

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    With this section the second movement in commissioning the prophet commences. It deals first with the sins of worship. These are first denounced. At the gate of the Temple the prophet rebuked the peop...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    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...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Valley, to the south of the city. Here Moloc was adored, and Josias therefore contaminated the place, 4 Kings xxiii. 10. (Calmet) --- It was very delightful. (St. Jerome)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Tophet had been a remarkable place on several occasions. It was called Tophet because it had been a place of slaughter. And it had been a charnel house, or sepulchre for burying in; and also a place o...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    Jeremiah in this verse also inveighs against those superstitions by which the Jews had corrupted the true and pure worship of God. He says, that they had _builded high places, _which was prohibited in...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 7, 8, AND 9. Chapter 7 begins a new prophecy, contemplating especially the temple, which, instead of being a protection (as the people, without conscience, wo...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND THEY HAVE BUILT THE HIGH PLACES OF TOPHET,.... Where was the idol Moloch; and which place had its name, as Jarchi thinks, from the beating of drums, that the parents of the children that were burn...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    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...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _They have set up their abominations_, &c. They have set up images and altars for idolatrous worship even in my temple, and the courts near it. This seems to be spoken of what was done in the times of...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE JUDGMENT PRONOUNCED...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And they have built the high places of Tophet, idolatrous altars with their sanctuaries at this point, WHICH IS IN THE VALLEY OF THE SON OF HINNOM, southwest of Jerusalem, TO BURN THEIR SONS AND THEIR...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    CAME IT INTO MY HEART: _ Heb._ came it upon my heart...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    HIGH PLACES OF TOPHET; SEE POOLE ON "ISAIAH 30:33". It comes from _Toph_, that signifies a _drum_, because they did beat drums to hinder the noise of their children's screeches, when they burnt them i...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Jeremiah 7:31 built H1129 (H8804) places H1116 Tophet H8612 Valley H1516 Son H1121 Hinnom H2011 burn H8313 ...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: The message in the gate of the Lord's house. Coming desolations because of sin. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: It is common for those who are furthest from God to boast themselves...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Jeremiah 7:2. _Stand in the gate of the Lord's house,_ and call the people to repentance by arguments arrayed in all the glory and force of truth. This was the chief gate of entrance. The temple had t...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES. 1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER. _Keil_ regards chaps. 7 to 10 as later addresses, delivered during Josiah’s reign. _Bagster_ places an interval of merely two years between...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION Ch. 7-10.—Severe rebukes of idolatry alternating with announcements of the impending judgment. The circumstances connected with this discourse, or part thereof, appear to be detailed in Jer...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    So chapter 7. King Josiah, who was reigning at the beginning of Jeremiah's ministry, in the eighteenth year of his reign, ordered the temple restored. It had fallen into disrepair. It sort of lay in r...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Chronicles 28:3; 2 Chronicles 33:6; 2 Kings 17:17; 2 Kings 23:20;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    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 situat...

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