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The valley of slaughter is the prophetic renamed Topheth in Jeremiah, where judgment reverses the meaning of the place. It is important because it transforms a site of sin into a memorial of catastrophe. First appears in Jer 7:32.1
AI summary: The valley of slaughter matters because Jeremiah's renaming is itself an act of prophetic judgment. The place once associated with terrible practices becomes identified with death, siege, and disgrace. The cross references present the valley of slaughter as a Jerusalem valley of sin exposed and judgment declared.1
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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.