Jeremiah 7:31

“And they have built the high places of Tophet, etc.] 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 burnt might not hear the cry of them: which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom; a valley near Jerusalem, and lay to the south of it, (<061508>Joshua 15:8 18:16): to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire: which was done, as Jarchi says, by putting them into the arms of the brasen image Moloch, heated hot. The account he gives of Tophet is this, “Tophet is Moloch, which was made of brass; and they heated him from his lower parts; and his hands being stretched out, and made hot, they put…”

“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-- (Psa 106:38). commanded . . . not--put for, "I forbade expressly" (Deu 17:3; Deu 12:31). See on Jer 2:23; Isa 30:33.”

“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 before the enemy in such multitudes that burial shall be impossible, and the beasts of the field unmolested shall prey upon their remains. Jeremiah 7:29 The daughter of Zion, defiled by the presence of enemies in her sanctuary, and rejected of God, must shear off the diadem of her hair, the symbol of her consecration to God, just as the Nazarite, when defiled by contact with a corpse, was to shave his crowned head. Take up a lamentation ... - Or, lift up a “lamentation on the bare hill-sides” Jeremiah…”

“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 situate in a pleasant valley near Jerusalem, a place in the possession of the children of one Hinnom, Jos 15:8. Next: Jeremiah Chapter 8”

“the high: Jer 19:5, Jer 19:6, Jer 32:35; Kg2 23:20; Ch2 33:6 the valley: Jer 19:2; Jos 15:8; Ch2 28:3 to burn: Deu 12:31; Kg2 17:17; Psa 106:37, Psa 106:38; Eze 16:20 which I: Lev 18:21, Lev 20:1-5; Deu 17:3 came it into: Heb. came it upon Jeremiah 7:32”