“Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that it shall no more be called Tophet, nor the valley of the son of Hinnom, but the valley of slaughter: for they shall bury in Tophet, till there be no place.”
The judgment of Topheth: 'So beware, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when people will no longer call it Topheth or the Valley of Ben Hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter, for they will bury the dead in Topheth until there is no more room.' This verse announces that Topheth (the place of child sacrifice) will become 'the Valley of Slaughter,' where the dead from the coming siege will be buried in such numbers that there is 'no more room.' The transformation from a place of religious sacrifice to a mass grave indicates the reversal of the people's will: they sacrificed children voluntarily; they will be buried there involuntarily. Theologically, this verse indicates that Topheth will serve as a monument to judgment: the place where the people performed their most heinous acts will become the place where they experience God's most devastating judgment.
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