 | Jean Calvin - 1851 - 540 pages
...have set their abominations in the house, On which my name is called, to pollute it ; 31 And they have built the high places of Tophet, Which is in the valley...their sons and their daughters in the fire ; Which I have not commanded, Nor has it ever come into my heart. 32 Therefore, behold the days come, saith Jehovah,... | |
 | Richard Graves - Bible - 1844 - 554 pages
...have built " the high places of Tophet, which is in tlie valley of the son of Hinnom, TO BURN "THKIH SONS AND THEIR DAUGHTERS IN THE FIRE; WHICH I COMMANDED THEM NOT, "NEITHER CAME IT INTO MY HEART. Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the " Lord, that it shall no more be called Tuphet, nor the... | |
 | George Buchanan Gray - Bible - 1925 - 460 pages
...intention of those who made them Yahweh ; so much seems to follow from Jeremiah's repudiation : ' They have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the valley...their sons and their daughters in the fire ; which I (ie Yahweh) commanded not, neither came it into my mind.' For Yahweh to say that he did not command... | |
 | G. Johannes Botterweck, Helmer Ringgren, Heinz-Josef Fabry - Religion - 1974 - 822 pages
..."sons of Judah" have contravened Yahweh's commandment "by building the high place [!]45 of Topheth in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire." Jer. 19:5 recounts Jeremiah's breaking of a jug (v. 10; cf. v. 1) while he once more speaks of high... | |
 | John Wesley - Biography & Autobiography - 1964 - 532 pages
...particularly in that passage of Jeremiah. The whole verse is, "They have built the high places of Tophet to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire, which I commanded them not." Now, God had expressly forbidden them to do this, and that on pain of death. But surely there is 8... | |
 | Avi Erlich - Religion - 2010 - 298 pages
...crops and animals, thus provoking Jeremiah and Ezekiel to chastise those who did so: And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the valley...commanded them not, neither came it into my heart. (Jeremiah 7) With their idols have they committed adultery, and have also caused their sons, whom they... | |
 | Philip L. Safford, Elizabeth J. Safford - Education - 1996 - 370 pages
...practice of human sacrifice. The prophet Jeremiah (7:30) decried as an abomination that "they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the valley...commanded them not, neither came it into my heart." Child sacrifice may never have been widespread, but that it has occurred at all says much about the... | |
 | Hilton Hotema - 1997 - 194 pages
...which burnt incense and sacrificed unto their gods (1 Kings 11:7, 8). Again we read: And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the valley...to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire. * * * And they built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause... | |
 | Robert Karl Gnuse - Religion - 1997 - 394 pages
...32.35 he explicitly condemns the sacrifice, (7.31) 'And they go on building the high place of Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire.' (19.5) '...and gone on building the high places of Baal to burn their children in the fire as burnt... | |
 | Louis Arthur Berman - Religion - 1997 - 292 pages
...heart, and went backward and not forward. . . . And they have built the high places of Topheth ... to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire, which I commanded them not" (Jeremiah 7:3, 9, 23, 24, 31). 14. "For the children of Israel and the children of Judah have only... | |
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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 heart. 
