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TOPHET, or TOPHETH (nsnn)

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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 50 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TOPHET, or TOPHETH (nsnn)  , the name given in 2
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Kings
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xxiii . 10; Jer. vii . 31, to a spot in the valley of
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Ben Hinnom near
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Jerusalem where the
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Hebrews in the
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time of
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Ahab and
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Manasseh offered
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children to Molech and other
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heathen gods .
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Josiah " defiled" it as
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part of his reforming activity, and it became a
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place for the bestowal and destruction of refuse, and a synonym for Gehenna (Isa.
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xxx . 33; Jer. vii . 32) . The uncertain
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etymology of the word is discussed in the Ency . Bib., s.v .

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