Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Jeremiah 7:31
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 Moloch.
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 Moloch.
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...
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
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...
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.
_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...
For a recurrence of the substance of this passage see ch. Jeremiah 19:5 f., Jeremiah 19:11....
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...
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...
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...
1-20. Ceremonies and sacred places shall be no defence....
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...
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...
וּ בָנ֞וּ בָּמֹ֣ות הַ תֹּ֗פֶת אֲשֶׁר֙ בְּ
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
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...
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...
_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)_...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
THE JUDGMENT PRONOUNCED...
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...
CAME IT INTO MY HEART: _ Heb._ came it upon my heart...
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...
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...
Jeremiah 7:31 built H1129 (H8804) places H1116 Tophet H8612 Valley H1516 Son H1121 Hinnom H2011 burn H8313 ...
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...
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...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 7:31 HIGH PLACES OF TOPHETH... HINNOM. See 2 Kings 23:10; Isa
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...
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...
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...
2 Chronicles 28:3; 2 Chronicles 33:6; 2 Kings 17:17; 2 Kings 23:20;...
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...