Topheth is a region within the Valley of Hinnom. Many wicked kings, including King Ahaz of Judah, built foreign altars here and engaged in idol worship.
Isaiah 30:33For his burning place has long been ready. Yes, for the king it is prepared. He has made its pyre deep and large with fire and much wood. Yahweh’s breath, like a stream of sulfur, kindles it.
Jeremiah 7:31Therefore behold, the days come”, says Yahweh, “that it will no more be called ‘Topheth)’ or ‘The valley of the son of Hinnom’, but ‘The valley of Slaughter’; for they will bury in Topheth until there is no place to bury.Jeremiah 7:32The dead bodies of this people will be food for the birds of the sky, and for the animals of the earth. No one will frighten them away.
Jeremiah 19:6“ ‘ “I will make the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem void in this place. I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hand of those who seek their life. I will give their dead bodies to be food for the birds of the sky and for the animals of the earth.Jeremiah 19:7I will make this city an astonishment and a hissing. Everyone who passes by it will be astonished and hiss because of all its plagues.Jeremiah 19:8I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters. They will each eat the flesh of his friend in the siege and in the distress, with which their enemies, and those who seek their life, will distress them.” ’Jeremiah 19:9“Then you shall break the container in the sight of the men who go with you,Jeremiah 19:10and shall tell them, ‘Yahweh of Armies says: “Even so I will break this people and this city, as one breaks a potter’s vessel, that can’t be made whole again. They will bury in Topheth, until there is no place to bury.Jeremiah 19:11This is what I will do to this place,” says Yahweh, “and to its inhabitants, even making this city as Topheth.Jeremiah 19:12The houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, which are defiled, will be as the place of Topheth, even all the houses on whose roofs they have burned incense to all the army of the sky and have poured out drink offerings to other gods.” ’ ”Jeremiah 19:13Then Jeremiah came from Topheth, where Yahweh had sent him to prophesy, and he stood in the court of Yahweh’s house, and said to all the people:Jeremiah 19:14“Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says, ‘Behold, I will bring on this city and on all its towns all the evil that I have pronounced against it, because they have made their neck stiff, that they may not hear my words.’ ”
요시야왕에 이르러 이곳을 헐고 부정하게 하여 다시는 이방신을 섬기지 못하도록 하였다.
2 Kings 23:10He took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entrance of Yahweh’s house, by the room of Nathan Melech the officer, who was in the court; and he burned the chariots of the sun with fire.