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Valley of the Children of Hinnom

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Named at 2 Kings 23:10, where Topheth, which the king defiles, is “Topheth, which is in the valley of the children of Hinnom”. WEB reads “He defiled”, where the Korean Revised Version names the king (왕이).

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2CH 28:1–4, engwebp
¹Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. He didn’t do that which was right in the LORD’s eyes, like David his father,
²but he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and also made molten images for the Baals.
³Moreover he burned incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and burned his children in the fire, according to the abominations of the nations whom the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.
⁴He sacrificed and burned incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
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2CH 33:1–9, engwebp
¹Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem.
²He did that which was evil in the LORD’s sight, after the abominations of the nations whom the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.
³For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down; and he raised up altars for the Baals, made Asheroth, and worshiped all the army of the sky, and served them.
⁴He built altars in the LORD’s house, of which the LORD said, “My name shall be in Jerusalem forever.”
⁵He built altars for all the army of the sky in the two courts of the LORD’s house.
⁶He also made his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom. He practiced sorcery, divination, and witchcraft, and dealt with those who had familiar spirits and with wizards. He did much evil in the LORD’s sight, to provoke him to anger.
⁷He set the engraved image of the idol, which he had made, in God’s house, of which God said to David and to Solomon his son, “In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name forever.
⁸I will not any more remove the foot of Israel from off the land which I have appointed for your fathers, if only they will observe to do all that I have commanded them, even all the law, the statutes, and the ordinances given by Moses.”
⁹Manasseh seduced Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that they did more evil than did the nations whom the LORD destroyed before the children of Israel.
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2KI 23:10–14, engwebp
¹⁰He 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.
¹¹He took away the horses that the kings of Judah had dedicated to the sun, at the entrance of the LORD’s house, by the room of Nathan Melech the officer who was in the court; and he burned the chariots of the sun with fire.
¹²The king broke down the altars that were on the roof of the upper room of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the LORD’s house, and beat them down from there, and cast their dust into the brook Kidron.
¹³The king defiled the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mountain of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon.
¹⁴He broke in pieces the pillars, cut down the Asherah poles, and filled their places with men’s bones.
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JER 7:29–34, engwebp
²⁹Cut off your hair, and throw it away, and take up a lamentation on the bare heights; for the LORD has rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.
³⁰“For the children of Judah have done that which is evil in my sight,” says the LORD. “They have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to defile it.
³¹They have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire, which I didn’t command, nor did it come into my mind.
³²Therefore behold, the days come”, says the LORD, “that it will no more be called ‘Topheth’ or ‘The valley of the son of Hinnom’, but ‘The valley of Slaughter’; for they will bury in Topheth until there is no place to bury.
³³The dead bodies of this people will be food for the birds of the sky, and for the animals of the earth. No one will frighten them away.
³⁴Then I will cause to cease from the cities of Judah and from the streets of Jerusalem the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride; for the land will become a waste.”
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JER 19:1–13, engwebp
¹Thus said the LORD, “Go, and buy a potter’s earthen container, and take some of the elders of the people and of the elders of the priests;
²and go out to the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is by the entry of the gate Harsith, and proclaim there the words that I will tell you.
³Say, ‘Hear the LORD’s word, kings of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: The LORD of Armies, the God of Israel says, “Behold, I will bring evil on this place, which whoever hears, his ears will tingle.
⁴Because they have forsaken me, and have defiled this place, and have burned incense in it to other gods that they didn’t know—they, their fathers, and the kings of Judah—and have filled this place with the blood of innocents,
⁵and have built the high places of Baal to burn their children in the fire for burnt offerings to Baal, which I didn’t command, nor speak, which didn’t even enter into my mind.
⁶Therefore, behold, the days come,” says the LORD, “that this place will no more be called ‘Topheth’, nor ‘The Valley of the son of Hinnom’, but ‘The valley of Slaughter’.
⁷“‘“I will make the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem void in this place. I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hand of those who seek their life. I will give their dead bodies to be food for the birds of the sky and for the animals of the earth.
⁸I will make this city an astonishment and a hissing. Everyone who passes by it will be astonished and hiss because of all its plagues.
⁹I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters. They will each eat the flesh of his friend in the siege and in the distress with which their enemies, and those who seek their life, will distress them.”’
¹⁰“Then you shall break the container in the sight of the men who go with you,
¹¹and shall tell them, ‘The LORD of Armies says: “Even so I will break this people and this city as one breaks a potter’s vessel, that can’t be made whole again. They will bury in Topheth until there is no place to bury.
¹²This is what I will do to this place,” says the LORD, “and to its inhabitants, even making this city as Topheth.
¹³The houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah, which are defiled, will be as the place of Topheth, even all the houses on whose roofs they have burned incense to all the army of the sky and have poured out drink offerings to other gods.”’”
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JER 32:26–35, engwebp
²⁶Then the LORD’s word came to Jeremiah, saying,
²⁷“Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh. Is there anything too hard for me?
²⁸Therefore the LORD says: Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the Chaldeans, and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he will take it.
²⁹The Chaldeans, who fight against this city, will come and set this city on fire, and burn it with the houses on whose roofs they have offered incense to Baal, and poured out drink offerings to other gods, to provoke me to anger.
³⁰“For the children of Israel and the children of Judah have done only that which was evil in my sight from their youth; for the children of Israel have only provoked me to anger with the work of their hands, says the LORD.
³¹For this city has been to me a provocation of my anger and of my wrath from the day that they built it even to this day, so that I should remove it from before my face,
³²because of all the evil of the children of Israel and of the children of Judah, which they have done to provoke me to anger—they, their kings, their princes, their priests, their prophets, the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
³³They have turned their backs to me, and not their faces. Although I taught them, rising up early and teaching them, yet they have not listened to receive instruction.
³⁴But they set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to defile it.
³⁵They 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 fire to Molech, which I didn’t command them. It didn’t even come into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.”
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Matched to OpenBible.info’s “Valley of Hinnom” by name and 8 shared verses. The leading identification is Hinnom Valley (confidence 1000 of 1000). The dataset gives no point for it, only the region, river or route it lies in or along, so no point is drawn for it.

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Hinnom Valley
OpenBible.info confidence 1000 of 1000 (current scholarship)
31.76917, 35.22806
OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding Data, “Valley of Hinnom” (CC BY 4.0)

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Narrated location (3) — The king defiles Topheth in the valley of the children of Hinnom, and breaks down the altars and casts their dust into the brook Kidron, Ahaz makes Baal images and burns his children, Manasseh builds idolatrous altars and leads Judah astray

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Entry: Valley of the Children of Hinnom (place-valley-of-hinnom)
Address: https://bibliadatum.org/en/wiki/place/valley-of-hinnom
Current wording: Named at 2 Kings 23:10, where Topheth, which the king defiles, is “Topheth, which is in the valley of the children of Hinnom”. WEB reads “He defiled”, where the Korean Revised Version names the king (왕이).
Cited evidence: 2CH 28:1–4, engwebp / 2CH 33:1–9, engwebp / 2KI 23:10–14, engwebp / JER 7:29–34, engwebp / JER 19:1–13, engwebp / JER 32:26–35, engwebp
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