2Ki 23:10, Jer 7:31 | JFB | STEP | 10. Topheth —so called from Toph —a "drum." It is the prevailing opinion among Jewish writers that the cries of the terrified children made to pass through the fire in that place of idolatrous horror were drowned by the sound of that instrument.

2 Kings 23:10

10. Topheth—so called from Toph—a "drum." It is the prevailing opinion among Jewish writers that the cries of the terrified children made to pass through the fire in that place of idolatrous horror were drowned by the sound of that instrument.

Jeremiah 7:31

31. high places of Tophet—the altars [HORSLEY] of Tophet; erected to Moloch, on the heights along the south of the valley facing Zion.

burn . . . sons— (Ps 106:38).

commanded . . . not—put for, "I forbade expressly" (De 17:3; 12:31). See on Jer 2:23; Isa 30:33.