“And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, shall be defiled as the place of Tophet, because of all the houses upon whose roofs they have burned incense unto all the host of heaven, and have poured out drink offerings unto other gods.”
The judgment includes desecration of the houses where inhabitants have made offerings to the heavens and poured out drink offerings to other gods. The specific practices of celestial worship and offering to foreign gods documented in the houses show systematic apostasy. God will make the houses unclean, mirroring the uncleanness the people created through their practices. The reversal is precise: they defiled the houses through idolatry; God will defile the houses through judgment.
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