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Thus will I do to this place, says Yahweh, and to the inhabitants of it, even making this city as Topheth:
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A City Like Tophet
Commentators explain that God's declaration to make Jerusalem "as Tophet" was a horrifying image. It meant the city would become like the cursed valley—a place filled with corpses, a ruinous and filthy dump, and an object of utter scorn and contempt. The judgment would be total, transforming the holy city into a place of death and defilement.
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Jeremiah
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19th Century
Anglican
And even make this city as Tophet. —This is an allusive reference partly to the state of the valley of Hinnom as a heap of ruins and rubbi…
16th Century
Protestant
As he had said before that the valley would be the place of slaughter, so that it might take its name from there, so he now declares the same conce…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Thus will I do unto this place, says the Lord, and to the inhabitants of it. To the city of Jerusalem and its inhabitants…
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Presbyterian
The potter's vessel, after it is hardened, can never be mended when it is broken. And as the bottle was broken, so will Judah and Jerusalem be brok…
13th Century
Catholic
Here, the prophet signifies the previously mentioned punishment through an action.
He describes the action: you shall break th…
