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Topheth
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TOPHETH . A term of uncertain etymology, designating some locality in one of the valleys near Jerusalem, very possibly in the Valley of Hinnom ( 2 Kings 23:10 ), or near the point of juncture of the three valleys of Jerusalem. It was there that the Jews under Ahab and Manasseh performed the rites of human sacrifice ( Jeremiah 7:31-32 ), offering children to Baal, Molech, and other heathen gods. It was defiled by Josiah as a part of his religious reformation, and so came to be an abominable place where the refuse was destroyed, and thus a synonym of Gehenna (wh. see).
Shailer Mathews.
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Hastings, James. Entry for 'Topheth'. Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/hdb/t/topheth.html. 1909.
Hastings, James. Entry for 'Topheth'. Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/hdb/t/topheth.html. 1909.
