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Topheth was the place in the Valley of Hinnom associated with some of the darkest cultic practices condemned by the prophets. It is important because it became a byword for desecration, judgment, and the reversal of corrupt worship. First appears in 2 Kgs 23:10.1
AI summary: Topheth's significance is moral and prophetic rather than political. It is remembered as a place where abhorrent practices were carried out in the Valley of Hinnom, and because of that it becomes a focal point in prophetic denunciation. The place is then reimagined as a site of judgment rather than false worship. The cross references present Topheth as one of the Bible's starkest warnings about corrupted religion and coming judgment.1
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Figure1: A table of cross references between the selected passage and other passages (Data from Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.)
AI-assisted summary prepared for ai-BIBLE and stored as page content, based on dictionary material, place metadata, and linked Bible cross references.
Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.