⁸ From there the border ascended Ben Hinnom Valley to the southern Jebusite slope (that is, Jerusalem) and ascended to the top of the hill that faces Hinnom Valley on the west, at the northern end of Rephaim Valley.

¹⁶ The border descended to the foot of the hill that faces Ben Hinnom Valley at the northern end of Rephaim Valley. It ran down Hinnom Valley toward the south Jebusite slope and downward to En-rogel.

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)

²⁹ Cut off the hair of your sacred vow^[a](A) and throw it away. Raise up a dirge on the barren heights,^(B) for the Lord has rejected and abandoned the generation under his wrath.’^(C)

³⁰ “For the Judeans have done what is evil in my sight.” This is the Lord’s declaration. “They have set up their abhorrent things^(D) in the house that bears my name in order to defile it.^{(E) 31} They have built the high places of Topheth^[b](F) in Ben Hinnom Valley^[c](G) in order to burn their sons and daughters in the fire,^(H) a thing I did not command; I never entertained the thought.

³² “Therefore, look, the days are coming”^(I)—the Lord’s declaration—“when this place will no longer be called Topheth and Ben Hinnom Valley, but Slaughter Valley.^(J) Topheth will become a cemetery,^[d] because there will be no other burial place. ³³ The corpses of these people will become food for the birds of the sky and for the wild animals of the land, with no one to scare them away.^{(K) 34} I will remove from the cities of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem the sound of joy and gladness and the voices of the groom and the bride,^(L) for the land will become a desolate waste.^(M)

² and go out to Ben Hinnom Valley^(A) near the entrance of the Potsherd Gate. Proclaim there the words I speak to you. ³ Say, ‘Hear the word of the Lord, kings of Judah and residents of Jerusalem.^(B) This is what the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says: I am going to bring such a disaster on this place that everyone who hears about it will shudder^{[a](C) 4} because they have abandoned me^(D) and made this a foreign place. They have burned incense in it to other gods that they, their ancestors, and the kings of Judah have never known. They have filled this place with the blood of the innocent.^{(E) 5} They have built high places to Baal on which to burn their children in the fire as burnt offerings to Baal, something I have never commanded or mentioned; I never entertained the thought.^[b](F)

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