2 Kings 23:10
23:10 The king
1 ruined Topheth in the Valley of Ben Hinnom so that no one could pass his son or his daughter through the fire to Molech.
2
Jeremiah 7:31-32
7:31 They have also built places of worship
3 in a place called Topheth
4 in the Valley of Ben Hinnom so that they can sacrifice their sons and daughters by fire. That is something I never commanded them to do! Indeed, it never even entered my mind to command such a thing!
5
7:32 So, watch out!”
6 says the
Lord. “The time will soon come when people will no longer call those places Topheth or the Valley of Ben Hinnom. But they will call that valley
7 the Valley of Slaughter and they will bury so many people in Topheth they will run out of room.
8
Jeremiah 19:6
19:6 So I, the
Lord, say:
9 “The time will soon come that people will no longer call this place Topheth or the Hinnom Valley. But they will call this valley
10 the Valley of Slaughter!
Jeremiah 19:11-14
19:11 Tell them the
Lord who rules over all says,
11 ‘I will do just as Jeremiah has done.
12 I will smash this nation and this city as though it were a potter’s vessel which is broken beyond repair.
13 The dead will be buried here in Topheth until there is no more room to bury them.’
14
19:12 I, the
Lord, say:
15 ‘That is how I will deal with this city and its citizens. I will make it like Topheth.
19:13 The houses in Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah will be defiled by dead bodies
16 just like this place, Topheth. For they offered sacrifice to the stars
17 and poured out drink offerings to other gods on the roofs of those houses.’”
19:14 Then Jeremiah left Topheth where the Lord had sent him to give that prophecy. He went to the Lord’s temple and stood 18 in its courtyard and called out to all the people.
Matthew 4:22
4:22 They
19 immediately left the boat and their father and followed him.
Matthew 18:8-9
18:8 If
20 your hand or your foot causes you to sin,
21 cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life crippled or lame than to have
22 two hands or two feet and be thrown into eternal fire.
18:9 And if your eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter into life with one eye than to have
23 two eyes and be thrown into fiery hell.
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1 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
2 sn Attempts to identify this deity with a god known from the ancient Near East have not yet yielded a consensus. For brief discussions see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor II Kings (AB), 288 and HALOT 592 s.v. מֹלֶךְ. For more extensive studies see George C. Heider, The Cult of Molek, and John Day, Molech: A God of Human Sacrifice in the Old Testament.
3 tn Heb “high places.”
4 tn Heb “the high places of [or in] Topheth.”
5 tn Heb “It never entered my heart.” The words “to command such a thing” do not appear in the Hebrew but are added for the sake of clarity.
6 tn Heb “Therefore, behold!”
7 tn Heb “it will no longer be said ‘Topheth’ or ‘the Valley of Ben Hinnom’ but ‘the valley of slaughter.’
8 tn Heb “And they will bury in Topheth so there is not room.”
9 tn This phrase (Heb “Oracle of the Lord”) has been handled this way on several occasions when it occurs within first person addresses where the Lord is the speaker. See, e.g., 16:16; 17:24; 18:6.
10 tn Heb “it will no longer be called to this place Topheth or the Valley of Ben Hinnom but the Valley of Slaughter.”
11 tn Heb “Thus says Yahweh of armies.” For this title see the study note on 2:19. The translation attempts to avoid the confusion of embedding quotes within quotes by reducing this one to an indirect quote.
12 tn The adverb “Thus” or “Like this” normally points back to something previously mentioned. See, e.g., Exod 29:35; Num 11:15; 15:11; Deut 25:9.
13 tn Heb “Like this I will break this people and this city, just as one breaks the vessel of a potter which is not able to be repaired.”
14 sn See Jer 7:22-23 for parallels.
15 tn This phrase (Heb “Oracle of the Lord”) has been handled this way on several occasions when it occurs within first person addresses where the Lord is the speaker. See, e.g., 16:16; 17:24; 18:6.
16 tn The words “by dead bodies” is not in the text but is implicit from the context. They are supplied in the translation for clarity.
17 tn Heb “the host of heaven.”
18 tn Heb “And Jeremiah entered from Topheth where the Lord had sent him to prophesy and he stood in the courtyard of the Lord’s temple.”
19 tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.
20 tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.
21 sn In Greek there is a wordplay that is difficult to reproduce in English here. The verb translated “causes…to sin” (σκανδαλίζω, skandalizw) comes from the same root as the word translated “stumbling blocks” (σκάνδαλον, skandalon) in the previous verse.
22 tn Grk “than having.”
23 tn Grk “than having.”
24 tn Grk “the Gehenna of fire.”