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Jeremiah 7:32

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

‘Therefore, look, the days are coming’   #– #the Lord’s declaration #– #‘when this place will no longer be called Topheth and Ben Hinnom Valley, but Slaughter Valley.  Topheth will become a cemetery,  because there will be no other burial place.

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and you are to proclaim to them, “This is what the Lord of Armies says: I will shatter these people and this city, as one shatters a potter’s jar that can never again be mended. They will bury the dead in Topheth because there is no other place for burials.


‘ “Therefore, look, the days are coming   #– #this is the Lord’s declaration #– #when this place will no longer be called Topheth and Ben Hinnom Valley, but Slaughter Valley.


He defiled Topheth,  which is in Ben Hinnom Valley,  so that no one could sacrifice his son or daughter in the fire  , to Molech.


The houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah will become impure like that place Topheth #– #all the houses on whose rooftops they have burned incense to all the stars in the sky  and poured out drink offerings to other gods.” ’


They have built the high places of Topheth  , in Ben Hinnom Valley  , in order to burn their sons and daughters in the fire,  a thing I did not command; I never entertained the thought.


I will destroy your high places, cut down your shrines,  and heap your lifeless bodies on the lifeless bodies of your idols;  I will reject you.


and go out to Ben Hinnom Valley  near the entrance of the Potsherd Gate. Proclaim there the words I speak to you.


The whole valley #– #the corpses, the ashes, and all the fields as far as the Kidron Valley  to the corner of the Horse Gate  to the east #– #will be holy to the Lord. It will never be uprooted or demolished again.’


Your altars will be desolated and your shrines  smashed. I will throw down your slain in front of your idols.





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