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topheth

topheth


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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Tophet  \To"phet\,  n.  [Heb.  t[=o]phet,  literally,  a  place  to  be 
  spit  upon  an  abominable  place  fr  t[=u]ph  to  spit  out.] 
  A  place  lying  east  or  southeast  of  Jerusalem,  in  the  valley 
  of  Hinnom.  [Written  also  {Topheth}.] 
 
  And  he  defiled  Topheth,  which  is  in  the  valley  of  the 
  children  of  Hinnom.  --2  Kings 
  xxiii.  10. 
 
  Note:  It  seems  to  have  been  at  first  part  of  the  royal 
  garden,  but  it  was  afterwards  defiled  and  polluted  by 
  the  sacrifices  of  Baal  and  the  fires  of  Moloch,  and 
  resounded  with  the  cries  of  burning  infants.  At  a  later 
  period,  its  altars  and  high  places  were  thrown  down 
  and  all  the  filth  of  the  city  poured  into  it  until  it 
  became  the  abhorrence  of  Jerusalem,  and  in  symbol,  the 
  place  where  are  wailing  and  gnashing  of  teeth. 
 
  The  pleasant  valley  of  Hinnom,  Tophet  thence  And 
  black  Gehenna  called  the  type  of  hell.  --Milton.