¹⁰ He defiled Topheth,^(A) which is in Ben Hinnom Valley,^(B) so that no one could sacrifice his son or daughter in the fire^[a](C) to Molech.^(D)

⁶ ‘ “Therefore, look, the days are coming^(A) – this is the Lord’s declaration – when this place will no longer be called Topheth and Ben Hinnom Valley, but Slaughter Valley.^(B)

¹¹ and you are to proclaim to them, “This is what the Lord of Armies says: I will shatter these people and this city, as one shatters a potter’s jar that can never again be mended. They will bury the dead in Topheth because there is no other place for burials.^{(A) 12} That is what I will do to this place – this is the declaration of the Lord – and to its residents, making this city like Topheth. ¹³ The houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah will become impure like that place Topheth – all the houses on whose rooftops they have burned incense to all the stars in the sky^(B) and poured out drink offerings to other gods.” ’

¹⁴ Jeremiah returned from Topheth, where the Lord had sent him to prophesy, stood in the courtyard of the Lord’s temple,^(C) and proclaimed to all the people,