Jeremiah 19:6 - Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

Jeremiah 19:6

4 “Because they ^ahave forsaken Me and made this an alien place, because they have burned incense in it to other gods whom neither they, their fathers, nor the kings of Judah have known, and have filled this place with ^bthe blood of the innocents

5 ^a(they have also built the high places of Baal, to burn their sons with fire for burnt offerings to Baal, ^bwhich I did not command or speak, nor did it come into My mind),

6 therefore behold, the days are coming,” says the Lord, “that this place shall no more be called Tophet or ^athe Valley of the Son of Hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter.

7 And I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place, ^aand I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies and by the hands of those who seek their lives; their ^bcorpses I will give as meat for the birds of the heaven and for the beasts of the earth.

8 I will make this city ^adesolate and a hissing; everyone who passes by it will be astonished and hiss because of all its plagues.

9 And I will cause them to eat the ^aflesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and everyone shall eat the flesh of his friend in the siege and in the desperation with which their enemies and those who seek their lives shall drive them to despair.” ’

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Jeremiah 19:6

no more . . . Tophet—from Hebrew, toph, "drum"; for in sacrificing children to Molech drums were beaten to drown their cries. Thus the name indicated the joy of the people at the fancied propitiation of the god by this sacrifice; in antithesis to its joyless name subsequently.

valley of slaughter—It should be the scene of slaughter, no longer of children, but of men; not of "innocents" (Jeremiah 19:4), but of those who richly deserved their fate. The city could not be assailed without first occupying the valley of Hinnom, in which was the only fountain: hence arose the violent battle there.

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