Jeremiah 7:31 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded them not, neither camee it into my heart. ”

Jeremiah 7:31 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Jeremiah summons the people to lament over the miserable consequences of their rejection of God. In the valley of Hinnom, where lately they offered their innocents, they shall themselves fall befor...
Jeremiah 7:31 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

And they have built the high places of (q) Tophet, which [is] in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I (r) commanded [them] not, neither came it...
Jeremiah 7:31 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 7:29 to Jeremiah 8:3 . Mourning for Judah's Dead. Let Jerusalem mourn, and raise a dirge on the heights (where she sinned by her idolatry), because of the near approach of the punishmen...
Jeremiah 7:31 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

high places. Idolatrous places. Not the same word as Jeremiah 7:29 . Tophet. In the valley of the son of Hinnom ( 2 Kings 23:10 ; Isaiah 30:33 . Isaiah 19:6 ; Isaiah 19:11-14 ). Hinnom. No...
Jeremiah 7:31 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah in this verse also inveighs against those superstitions by which the Jews had corrupted the true and pure worship of God. He says, that they had builded high places, which was prohi...
Jeremiah 7:31 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my...
Jeremiah 7:31 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

The high places of Tophet— The valley of Hinnom, or of the son of Hinnom, was near Jerusalem, and was the scene of those horrid sacrifices which the Israelites, in imitation of their idolatrous nei...
Jeremiah 7:31 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my...
Jeremiah 7:31 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

1-20. Ceremonies and sacred places shall be no defence.
Jeremiah 7:31 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

High places. — Not the same word as in Jeremiah 7:29 , but bamoth, as in the “high places” of Baal, in Numbers 22:41 ; Numbers 23:3 , the Bamoth-baal of Joshua 13:17 . The word had become alm...
Jeremiah 7:31 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Jeremiah 8:1-22 ; Jeremiah 9:1-26 ; Jeremiah 10:1-25 ; Jeremiah 26:1-24 In the four Chapter s which we are now to consider we have what is plainly a finished whole. The only possible exception...
Jeremiah 7:31 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

With this section the second movement in commissioning the prophet commences. It deals first with the sins of worship. These are first denounced. At the gate of the Temple the prophet rebuked the peo...
Jeremiah 7:31 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Tophet had been a remarkable place on several occasions. It was called Tophet because it had been a place of slaughter. And it had been a charnel house, or sepulchre for burying in; and also a place...
Jeremiah 7:31 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And they have built the high places of Tophet ,.... Where was the idol Moloch; and which place had its name, as Jarchi thinks, from the beating of drums, that the parents of the children that were b...
Jeremiah 7:31 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And they have built the high places of Tophet, which [is] in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded [them] not, neither came it into my...
Jeremiah 7:31 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

They have set up their abominations , &c. They have set up images and altars for idolatrous worship even in my temple, and the courts near it. This seems to be spoken of what was done in the tim...
Jeremiah 7:31 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Desolation of Judah. B. C. 606. 29 Cut off thine hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it...
Jeremiah 7:31 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

High places of Tophet; See Poole on " Isaiah 30:33 " . It comes from Toph , that signifies a drum , because they did beat drums to hinder the noise of their children's screeches, when they burnt t...
Jeremiah 7:31 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES. 1. Chronology of the chapter. Keil regards chaps. 7 to 10 as later addresses, delivered during Josiah’s reign. Bagster places an interval of merely two years betw...
Jeremiah 7:31 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Jeremiah 7:2 . Stand in the gate of the Lord's house, and call the people to repentance by arguments arrayed in all the glory and force of truth. This was the chief gate of entrance. The temple ha...
Jeremiah 7:31 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Ch. 7-10.—Severe rebukes of idolatry alternating with announcements of the impending judgment. The circumstances connected with this discourse, or part thereof, appear to be detailed...
Jeremiah 7:31 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Judgment Pronounced
Jeremiah 7:31 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Chronicles 28:3 ; 2 Chronicles 33:6 ; 2 Kings 17:17 ; 2 Kings 23:20 ; Deuteronomy 12:31 ; Deuteronomy 17:3 ; Ezekiel 16:20 ; Jeremiah 19:2 ; Jeremiah 19:5 ; Jeremiah 19:6 ; Jeremiah 32:3...
Jeremiah 7:31 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Tophet — It comes from Toph, a drum, because they beat drums to drown the children's screeches, when they burnt them in sacrifice upon the altars, called here high places, to Moloch. Tophet was sit...

Jeremiah 7:31 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Jeremiah 7:31 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Jeremiah 7:31 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 7:31 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Jeremiah 7:31 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 7:31 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Jeremiah 7:31 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Jeremiah 7:31 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Jeremiah 7:31 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 7:31 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Jeremiah 7:31 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Jeremiah 7:31 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Jeremiah 7:31 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Jeremiah 7:31 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Jeremiah 7:31 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Jeremiah 7:31 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Jeremiah 7:31 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Jeremiah 7:31 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Jeremiah 7:31 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Jeremiah 7:31 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Jeremiah 7:31 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Jeremiah 7:31 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Jeremiah 7:31 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Jeremiah 7:31 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes