In Jeremiah 7:31 I think we have what most of us would be most jolted by regarding the idolatry of the people. They were not wont then to assemble afar off for the sake of these abominations, since the place was within sight of the Temple, and they knew that there was the only true altar approved by God, and that it was not lawful to offer sacrifices anywhere else. ., p598. burn. This burning was literal, though, as would appear from Ezekiel, the victims were slain before being burned. "Topheth," in the Valley of Hinnom just south of Jerusalem. It comes from Toph, that signifies a drum, because they did beat drums to hinder the noise of their children’s screeches, when they burnt them in sacrifice upon the altars, called here, high places, to Moloch, which is also called Melchom. Tophet — It comes from Toph, a drum, because they beat drums to drown the children's screeches, when they burnt them in sacrifice upon the altars, called here high places, to Moloch. I am aware of a formatting issue in the NIV '84 edition. . For the genesis of the word, see the dictionaries. Its use is probably therefore analogous to the scorn with which the prophets substituted bosheth, the “shameful thing,” for Baal (e.g., Jeremiah 3:24; Jeremiah 11:13). Jeremiah 7:1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, Jeremiah 7:2 Stand in the gate of the LORD's house, and proclaim there this word, and say, Hear the word of the LORD, all ye of Judah, that enter in at these gates to worship the LORD. 31.High places of Tophet — The word for “high places” is not the same which has been repeatedly so translated in this book, as in Jeremiah 7:29, but rather high altars. Jeremiah 7:31: They have built the high places of Topheth in the Valley of Ben Hinnom to burn their sons and daughters in the fire-something I did not command, nor did it enter my mind. It is not any particular woman that is addressed in Jeremiah 7:29, but the daughter of Zion (cf. Other etymologies give as the meaning of the word “a garden,” “a place of burning,” or “a place of drums,” i.e., a music grove, and so connect it more closely with the Molech ritual. Preaching at the Temple Gate. — The origin of this designation is not known. It means crown, originally the diadem of the high priest, Exodus 29:6; and the transference of the same word to the hair of the head is explained by the practice of the Nazarites, to wear the hair uncut as a mark of consecration to the Lord, Numbers 6:5. early--implying unwearied earnestness in soliciting them ( Jeremiah 7:25, Jeremiah 11:17, 2 Chronicles 36:15). Tophet was the particular spot in the valley where the fires were made, into which the poor innocent victims were thrown; and is supposed to have derived its name from the drums and tabrets, which were beaten in order to drown the children's cries. Here Moloc was adored, and Josias therefore contaminated the place, 4 Kings xxiii. In a similar manner the word Paradise is metaphorically taken for the blessed state and for the eternal inheritance; for God so placed man at first in that eastern garden, that he might in a manner protect him under his own wings. Leviticus 18:21; Leviticus 20:2-5; 2 Kings 23:10; Micah 6:7). JEREMIAH'S CALL AND COMMISSION. The case of Jephthah's daughter, if sacrificed, was not by divine command. The word had become almost technical for the mounds, natural or (as in this passage) artificial, on which altars to Jehovah or to other gods were erected, and appears in 1 Samuel 9:12; 1 Kings 3:4; Ezekiel 20:29; Amos 7:9. Its use is probably therefore analogous to the scorn with which the prophets substituted bosheth, the “shameful thing,” for Baal (e.g., Jeremiah 3:24; Jeremiah 11:13). They “caused their children to pass through the fire” in order to purify them and fit them for eternal bliss. As to the valley of Hinnom, it is called in Greek Gehenna, and is taken to designate eternal death, or the torments which await all the wicked. It means the "place of fire" (Jeremiah 7:31). Probably it came from some ancient hero of whose exploits this name is the only memorial. In the Valley of Hinnom the people placed these idols in the fire until they were red hot. Jer 7:13 “rising up early and speaking.” 2 Chronicles 28:3; 2 Chronicles 33:6. 13. rising . Jeremiah 7:3 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this … This section harmonizes: Jeremiah 31:27-40 Jeremiah 31:27-40 [27] Behold, the days come, said the LORD, that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man, and with the seed of beast. In these verses the judgment of Jeremiah 7:20 is depicted in all its horror, and the description is introduced by a call upon Zion to mourn and lament for the evil awaiting Jerusalem and the whole land. In this sense the long hair of the daughter of Zion is called her diadem, to mark her out as a virgin consecrated to the Lord. Go and get a potter’s earthen flask: In the previous chapter God taught Jeremiah at the potter’s house. Jeremiah 7:30 ‘Cut off your hair and cast it away, And take up a lamentation on the bare heights; For the Lord has rejected and forsaken The generation of His wrath.' Verse-by-Verse Bible Commentary Jeremiah 50:4. The people had also built a shrine at a site called "Topheth," in the Valley of Hinnom just south of Jerusalem. So also on the other hand the prophets called hell גיא הנם, gia enom, in order that the Jews might detest those impious and sacrilegious modes of worship by which their fathers had polluted themselves. object to this reference of the idea to the consecrated hair of the Nazarite: quod huc non quadrat, nec in faeminis adeo suetum erat; but this objection is grounded on defective apprehension of the meaning of the Nazarite's vow, and on misunderstanding of the figurative style here employed. Which is in the valley of the son on Hinnom: To burn their sons and their daughters in the fire: — The word for “high places” is not the same which has been repeatedly so translated in this book, as in, It applies to those artificial shrines raised for Baal worship at Jerusalem. Some of the prophecy here regarding Tophet and the Valley of Hinnom, it should be noted, is repeated from Jeremiah 7:31-33. This shows the result of passing them through the fire. Deprived of her holy ornament, Zion is to set up a lament upon bare hill-tops (cf. Valley, to the south of the city. The word in Isaiah 30:33, though not identical in form (Tophteh, not Tophet), had probably the same meaning. The account he gives of Tophet is this, "Tophet is Moloch, which was made of brass; and they heated him from his lower parts; and his hands being stretched out, and made hot, they put the child between his hands, and it was burnt; when it vehemently cried out; but the priests beat a drum, that the father might not hear the voice of his son, and his heart might not be moved:'. Jeremiah 7:31 Context. Possibly the last was the original meaning of the name, for which, as said above, the prophets used the term of opprobrium. Cutting off this hair is not only in token of mourning, as in Job 1:20; Micah 1:16, but in token of the loss of the consecrated character. !'" The idol worshipped there was Molech, a fire god. But when the Jews emulated his zeal, it was an extreme folly; and they were especially culpable, because they neglected God’s command and wholly disregarded it. For the name Ben-hinnom is much older than the Moloch-worship, introduced first by Ahaz and Manasseh. They took pattern from the Samaritans where those of every nation make gods of their own, 2 Kings 17:29-31. Other Forerunner Commentary entries containing Jeremiah 7:31: Jeremiah 19:12 Jeremiah 7:30 : Jeremiah 7:32 >> The Berean: Daily Verse and Comment Sign up for the Berean: Daily Verse and Comment, and have Biblical truth delivered to your inbox. John Piper Dec 17, 2012 5.3K Shares Article. Jeremiah 7:31. "Therefore do not pray for this people, nor lift up a cry or prayer for them, nor make intercession to … To burn their sons and their daughters.—The words are important as determining the character of the act more vaguely described in Jeremiah 32:35, as “making to pass through the fire.” The children were, in some cases at least, actually burnt, though often, perhaps (see Ezekiel 16:21), slain first. Tophet. The high places of Tophet— The valley of Hinnom, or of the son of Hinnom, was near Jerusalem, and was the scene of those horrid sacrifices which the Israelites, in imitation of their idolatrous neighbours, made of their Children to Moloch. When therefore they cast their children into the fire, this kind of zeal might have deceived the simple; and to this was added a pretext derived from example, for Abraham was prepared to sacrifice his own son. (A Book of Jeremiah The New International Commentary on the Old Testament) My heart yearns for him - This is another way of saying what he had declared in Jer 31:3 - “I have loved you with an everlasting love; Therefore I have drawn you with lovingkindness." That he had Manasseh's doings especially in view, we may gather from Jeremiah 15:4, where the coming calamities are expressly declared to be the punishment for Manasseh's sins. 31 And they have built [ the high places/places of worship ] of Tophet, which is in the valley of [ the son of/Ben ] Hinnom, God then told Jeremiah to take a clay bottle (earthen flask) to use for a spiritual illustration before some of the elders of the people and some … Showing the consistency of the destruction of the city with his purchase of a field, and with God's promise of fields and vineyards being purchased and possessed again. There is an immense number of them, as it is well known, and as it manifestly appears. Verse-by-Verse Bible Commentary Jeremiah 7:29. High places of Tophet - the altars (Horsley) of Tophet; erected to Moloch, on the heights along the south of the valley facing Zion. You all have … High places of Tophet; See Poole "Isaiah 30:33". We find it in Joshua 15:8; Joshua 18:16, in the topographical account of the boundaries of the tribes of Judah and Benjamin. But the reasons given are not conclusive. Now God, as it has been before said, prefers obedience to all sacrifices, (1 Samuel 15:22 :) hence the Prophet justly condemned them, that they forsook the Temple and built for themselves high places or groves, and also altars. The connection to ritual fire is made explicit in 2 Kings 23:10, Isaiah 30:33; and Jeremiah 7:31–32.In 2 Kings, King Josiah. And go out to the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, which is by the entry of the Potsherd Gate; and proclaim there the words that I will tell you,” a. Venema and Ros. I gave --and I therefore can revoke the gift for it is still Mine ( Leviticus 25:23 ), now that ye fail in the only object for which it was given, the promotion of My glory. The word appears in Job 17:6 (“by-word” in the Authorised version) as a thing spat upon and loathed. . 10. In Jeremiah 7:31 I think we have what most of us would be most jolted by regarding the idolatry of the people. (1-3) The good old days. New American Standard Version. What the Judahites were doing in the Valley of Hinnom was not fundamentally different from some of the forms of abortion that characterize modern life. Horrible as the practice seems to us, it was part of the Canaanite or Phœnician worship of Molech or Malcom (Leviticus 18:21; Leviticus 20:2-5), and had been practised by Ahaz (2 Kings 16:3; 2 Chronicles 28:3) and Manasseh (2 Kings 21:6; 2 Chronicles 33:6). Jeremiah 7:1 "The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying," “The word that came”: This was Jeremiah’s first temple sermon (verse 2); another is found (in chapter 26). Other etymologies give as the meaning of the word “a garden,” “a place of burning,” or “a place of drums,” i.e., a music grove, and so connect it more closely with the Molech ritual. To burn their sons and their daughters.] Commentary on Jeremiah [Published electronically for use in classes taught by Fr. Valley of the son of Hinnom - See Joshua 15:8 note. A. Jeremiah 7:31 New International Version (NIV) 31 They have built the high places of Topheth in the Valley of Ben Hinnom to burn their sons and daughters in the fire—something I did not command, nor did it enter my mind. 29 Cut off thine hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on high places; for the LORD hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath. Besides the desecration of the temple of the Lord by idolatry, Jeremiah mentions in Jer 7:31, as an especially offensive abomination, the worship of Moloch practised in the valley of Benhinnom. Comparing this verse with Jeremiah 19:5; Jeremiah 32:35, it will be found that Baal is in those passages substituted for Tophet. Commentary on Jeremiah 1-9. It applies to those artificial shrines raised for Baal worship at Jerusalem. The case of Jephthah's daughter, if sacrificed, was not by divine command. They have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire, which I did not command, and it did not come into My mind. Probably it came from some ancient hero of whose exploits this name is the only memorial. Jump to: Commentary on Jeremiah 2:29-37 (Read Jeremiah 2:29-37) The nation had not been wrought upon by the judgements of God, but sought to justify themselves. [28] And it shall come to pass, that like as I have watched over them, to pluck up, and to break down, and to throw down, and to destroy, and to afflict; so will I … Which is in the valley of the son on Hinnom: To burn their sons and their daughters in the fire: Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers, Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament. The world is, to those who make it their home and their portion, a wilderness and a land of darkness; but those who dwell in God, have the lines fallen to them in pleasant places. Of this so great an audacity Jeremiah now complains: They builded for themselves high places, in Tophet, even in the valley He introduces the word son; but it is called הנם גיא, gia enom, the valley of Hinnom; whence comes the word Gehenna, as we have already said. The instance of Abraham offering up Isaac will not justify it. For more information about child-sacrifice, see A. R. W. Green, The Role of Human Sacrifice in the Ancient Near East, pp173-87.] Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God … This document has been generated from XSL (Extensible Stylesheet Language) source with RenderX XEP Formatter, version 3.7.3 Client Academic. Faulty Religion and Unethical Behavior Will Lead to Judgment - The LORD said to Jeremiah: “Stand in the gate of the LORD’s temple and proclaim this message: ‘Listen to the LORD’s message, all you people of Judah who have passed through these gates to worship the LORD. but in this he is mistaken; for "Tophet" was not the name of an idol, but of a place, as is clear from this and the following verse. (a). תּפת is not derived from the Persian; nor is it true that, as Hitz. In the valley of the son of Hinnom (2 Kings 23:10. Jeremiah 7:32. jer 7:32 Jeremiah 7:31 And they have built the high places of Tophet, which [is] in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded [them] not, neither came it into my heart. ID. See on [902]Jer 2:23; [903]Isa 30:33. to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire: which was done, as Jarchi says, by putting them into the arms of the brasen image Moloch, heated hot. Other Forerunner Commentary entries containing Jeremiah 7:31: Jeremiah 19:12 Jeremiah 7:30 : Jeremiah 7:32 >> The Berean: Daily Verse and Comment Sign up for the Berean: Daily Verse and Comment, and have Biblical truth delivered to your inbox. It is formed from תּוּף, to spit out, like נפת from נוּף; and means properly a spitting out, then that before or on which one spits (as in Job 17:6), object of deepest abhorrence. Indeed, Jeremiah escorts a number of elders and priests out to the trash dump to witness what is to become of Jerusalem. 1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord: 2 Stand in the gate of the Lord 's house, and proclaim there this word, and say, Hear the word of the Lord, all you people of Judah, you that enter these gates to worship the Lord. Wesley's Jeremiah 7:31 Bible Commentary 7:31 Tophet - It comes from Toph, a drum, because they beat drums to drown the children's screeches, when they burnt them in sacrifice upon the altars, called here high places, to Moloch.Tophet was situate in a pleasant valley near Jerusalem, a place in the possession of the children of one Hinnom, 15:8 . The Masterpiece of All Promises. (Calmet) --- It was very delightful. As to the pretended example, they were so blind as not to distinguish between themselves and Abraham; for he was commanded to offer his son, (Genesis 22:2;) but they, without any command, attempted to do the same thing; this was extreme presumption. 3 Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Amend your ways and your doings, and let me dwell with you # 7.3 Or and I will let you dwell in this place. As then the blessing and favor of God shone on that place where Adam first dwelt, that it might be a certain image of celestial life and of true happiness, so they called the glory, prepared for all God’s children in heaven, Paradise. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 17:3; Deuteronomy 18:10). Jeremiah 7 is the seventh chapter of the Book of Jeremiah in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible.This book contains prophecies attributed to the prophet Jeremiah, and is one of the Books of the Prophets.Chapters 7 to 10 constitute an address delivered by Jeremiah at the gate of the Temple in Jerusalem. asserts, it does not occur till after the beginning of the Assyrian period, since we have it in Job 17:6. 13 of 15. And they have built the high places of Tophet, which. Jeremiah 7:31), south of Jerusalem, as a contemporary locale for Molech worship. Jeremiah 7:31, ESV: "And they have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and … At the restoration of the public worship of Jahveh, Josiah had extirpated Moloch-worship, and had caused the place of the sacrifice of abominations in the valley of Ben-hinnom to be defiled (2 Kings 23:20); so that it is hardly probable that it had been again restored immediately after Josiah's death, at the beginning of Jehoiakim's reign. The word in Isaiah 30:33, though not identical in form (Tophteh, not Tophet), had probably the same meaning. is not speaking of the forms of idolatry at that time in favour with the Jews, but of the abominations they had done. For the genesis of the word, see the dictionaries. The whole nation is addressed in Jeremiah 31:1, then the Ten Tribes in Jeremiah 31:2–22, then Judah in Jeremiah 31:23–26, then both Israel and Judah in Jeremiah 31:27–40. and Graf hold התפת in our verse to be a contemptuous name for Baal Moloch. Jeremiah 7:28. The word appears in Job 17:6 (“by-word” in the Authorised version) as a thing spat upon and loathed. 31. Jeremiah 3:21), since the Lord has rejected or cast out (Jeremiah 7:30) the generation that has drawn His wrath down on it, because they have set idols in the temple in which He has revealed His glory, to profane it. 30 For the children of Iudah haue done euill in my sight, saith the Lord: they haue set their abominations in the house which is called by my Name, to pollute it. 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