Jeremiah 7:31 - The Scriptures 1998

³¹ “And they have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire, which I did not command, nor did it come into My heart.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³¹ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³¹ And they have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the Valley of Ben-hinnom [son of Hinnom], to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire [in honor of Molech, the fire god]–which I did not command, nor did it come into My mind or heart. [Lev. 18:21; Josh. 15:8; II Kings 16:2-3; 21:1, 6; Isa. 30:33.]

American Standard Version (1901)

³¹ And they have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded not, neither came it into my mind.

Common English Bible

³¹ They have built shrines at Topheth in the Ben-hinnom Valley to burn their sons and daughters in the fire, although I never commanded such a thing, nor did it ever cross my mind.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³¹ And they have built the exalted places of Topheth, which is in the Valley of the son of Hinnom, so that they may burn their sons and their daughters with fire, something I neither instructed, nor thought in my heart.

Jeremiah 7:31 Cross References

2 Kings 17:17

and caused their sons and daughters to pass through the fire, and practised divination and sorcery, and sold themselves to do evil in the eyes of יהוה, to provoke Him.

2 Kings 23:10

And he defiled Topheth, which is in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, so that no man could make his son or his daughter pass through the fire to Moleḵ

2 Kings 23:20

And he slaughtered all the priests of the high places who were there, on the altars, and burned men’s bones on them, and went back to Yerushalayim.

2 Chronicles 28:3

And he himself burned incense in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, and burned his children in the fire, according to the abominations of the gentiles whom יהוה  dispossessed from before the children of Yisra’ĕ

2 Chronicles 33:6

And he made his sons pass through the fire in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, and practised magic, and used divination and witchcraft, and consulted mediums and spiritists. He did much evil in the eyes of יהוה, to provoke Him.

Isaiah 30:33

For Topheth was ordained of old, even for the sovereign it has been prepared. He has made it deep and large, its fire pit with much wood; the breath of יהוה, as a stream of burning sulphur, is burning in it!

Isaiah 57:5

being inflamed with mighty ones under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks?

Jeremiah 19:2

“Then you shall go out to the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, which is by the entry of the Potsherd Gate, and shall proclaim there the words that I speak to you,

Jeremiah 2:23

“How do you say, ‘I am not defiled, I have not gone after the Baʽ

Jeremiah 32:34

“And they set their abominations in the house which is called by My Name, to defile it.

Jeremiah 32:35

“And they built the high places of Baʽ

Ezekiel 16:20

“And you took your sons and your daughters, whom you bore to Me, and these you slaughtered as food to them. Were your whorings a small matter,

Ezekiel 20:26

“And I defiled them by their own gifts, as they passed all their first-born through the fire, so that I might stun them, so that they know that I am יהוה.” ’

Ezekiel 20:31

“For when you lift up your gifts and make your sons pass through the fire, you defile yourselves with all your idols, even to this day. And shall I be inquired of by you, O house of Yisra’ĕ

Leviticus 18:21

‘And do not give any of your offspring to pass through to Moleḵ

Micah 6:7

Is יהוה  pleased with thousands of rams or ten thousand rivers of oil? Shall I give my first-born for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my being?

Deuteronomy 12:31

“Do not do so to יהוה  your Elohim, for every abomination which יהוה  hates they have done to their mighty ones, for they even burn their sons and daughters in the fire to their mighty ones.

Deuteronomy 17:3

and has gone and served other mighty ones and bowed down to them, or to the sun or to the moon or to any of the host of the heavens, which I have not commanded,

Deuteronomy 18:10

“Let no one be found among you who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, or one who practises divination, or a user of magic, or one who interprets omens or a sorcerer,

Joshua 15:8

And the border went up by the Valley of the Son of Hinnom to the southern slope of the Yeḇ