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high places. Idolatrous places. Not the same word as Jer_7:29.
Tophet. In the valley of the son of Hinnom (2Ki_23:10. Isa_30:33. Isa_19:6, Isa_19:11-14).
Hinnom. Now Wady er Rababeh (Jos_15:8; Jos_18:16. 2Ki_23:10. 2Ch_28:3; 2Ch_33:6. Neh_11:30).
burn. This shows the result of passing them through the fire.
which I commanded them not. Reference to Pentateuch (Deu_17:3; Deu_18:10). App-92. Note the sin of adding to God's commands and words.
them. Some codices, with one early printed edition, Septuagint, and Syriac, read this "them"in the text. Compare Jer_32:35.
came = ascended. Put by Figure of speech Synecdoche (of Species), for coming into the mind.