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"Then go out to the ^(C1)Valley of Ben-hinnom, which is by the entrance of the ^(F1)Potsherd Gate, and ^(C2)proclaim there the words that I tell you,

and say, 'Hear the word of the LORD, you ^(C1)kings of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem. This is what the LORD of armies, the God of Israel says: "Behold I am going to bring a ^(C2)disaster upon this place, at which the ^(C3)ears of everyone that hears of it will tingle.

"Since they have ^(C1)abandoned Me and have ^(C2)made this place foreign, and have burned ^(F1)sacrifices in it to ^(C3)other gods that neither they nor their forefathers nor the kings of Judah had ever known, and since they have filled this place with the ^(C4)blood of the innocent

and have built the ^(C1)high places of Baal to burn their ^(C2)sons in the fire as burnt offerings to Baal, a thing which I did not command nor speak of, nor did it ever enter My ^(F1)mind;

therefore, behold, ^(C1)days are coming," declares the LORD, "when this place will no longer be called ^(C2)Topheth or ^(C3)the Valley of Ben-hinnom, but rather the Valley of Slaughter.