2 Kings 23:10
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10 (A) Josiah sent some men to Hinnom Valley just outside Jerusalem with orders to make the altar there unfit for worship. That way, people could no longer use it for sacrificing their children to the god Molech.
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Jeremiah 7:30-32
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30 You have disobeyed me by putting your disgusting idols in my temple, and now the temple itself is disgusting to me. 31 (A) At Topheth in Hinnom Valley you have built altars where you kill your children and burn them as sacrifices to other gods. I would never think of telling you to do this. 32 So watch out! Someday that place will no longer be called Topheth or Hinnom Valley. It will be called Slaughter Valley, because you will bury your dead there until you run out of room,
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Jeremiah 32:34
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34 (A) They have set up repulsive idols in my temple, and now it isn't a fit place to worship me.
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Jeremiah 32:35
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35 (A) And they led Judah into sin by building places to worship Baal in Hinnom Valley, where they also sacrificed their sons and daughters to the god Molech. I have never even imagined they would commit such disgusting sins.
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