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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 See also:Kings See also:xxiii . 10; Jer. vii . 31, to a spot in the valley of See also:Ben Hinnom near See also:Jerusalem where the See also:Hebrews in the See also:time of See also:Ahab and See also:Manasseh offered See also:children to Molech and other See also:heathen gods . See also:Josiah " defiled" it as See also:part of his reforming activity, and it became a See also:place for the bestowal and destruction of refuse, and a synonym for Gehenna (Isa. See also:xxx . 33; Jer. vii . 32) . The uncertain See also:etymology of the word is discussed in the Ency . Bib., s.v .

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