and (A)he made offerings in the (B)Valley of the Son of Hinnom and (C)burned his sons as an offering,[a] according to (D)the abominations of the nations whom the Lord drove out before the people of Israel.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 28:3 Hebrew made his sons pass through the fire

The Valley of Slaughter

30 “For the sons of Judah have done evil in my sight, declares the Lord. They have set (A)their detestable things in the house (B)that is called by my name, to (C)defile it. 31 And they have built the high places of (D)Topheth, which is in (E)the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, (F)to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire, (G)which I did not command, nor did it come into my mind.

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