24:019:004 Because they have forsaken me, and have
estranged this place,
and
have burned incense in it unto other gods, whom neither
they
nor their fathers have known, nor the kings of Judah,
and
have
filled this place with the blood of innocents;
24:019:005 They have built also the high places of
Baal, to burn their
sons
with fire for burnt offerings unto Baal, which I
commanded
not, nor spake it, neither came it into my mind:
24:019:006 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith
the lord, that this
place
shall no more be called Tophet, nor The valley of the
son
of Hinnom, but The valley of slaughter.
24:019:007 And I will make void the counsel of Judah
and Jerusalem in
this
place; and I will cause them to fall by the sword before
their
enemies, and by the hands of them that seek their lives:
and
their carcases will I give to be meat for the fowls
of the
heaven,
and for the beasts of the earth.
24:019:008 And I will make this city desolate, and
an hissing; every one
that
passeth thereby shall be astonished and hiss because
of
all
the plagues thereof.
24:019:009 And I will cause them to eat the flesh
of their sons and the
flesh
of their daughters, and they shall eat every one the
flesh
of his friend in the siege and straitness, wherewith
their
enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall straiten
them.
24:019:010 Then shalt thou break the bottle in the
sight of the men that
go
with thee,
24:019:011 And shalt say unto them, Thus saith the
lord of hosts; Even so
will
I break this people and this city, as one breaketh
a
potter’s
vessel, that cannot be made whole again: and they
shall
bury them in Tophet, till there be no place to bury.
24:019:012 Thus will I do unto this place, saith the
lord, and to the
inhabitants
thereof, and even make this city as Tophet:
24:019:013 And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses
of the kings of
Judah,
shall be defiled as the place of Tophet, because of
all
the
houses upon whose roofs they have burned incense unto
all
the
host of heaven, and have poured out drink offerings
unto
other
gods.
24:019:014 Then came Jeremiah from Tophet, whither
the lord had sent him
to
prophesy; and he stood in the court of the LORD’s
house;
and
said to all the people,
24:019:015 Thus saith the lord of hosts, the
God of Israel; Behold, I
will
bring upon this city and upon all her towns all the
evil
that
I have pronounced against it, because they have hardened
their
necks, that they might not hear my words.


