| Jeremiah 19:13
| And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Juda, shall be unclean as the place of Topheth: all the houses, upon whose roofs they have sacrificed to all the host of heaven, and have poured out drink-offerings to strange gods.
| Topheth. This sentence was not in St. Jerome's Hebrew copy, but in the Septuagint (Calmet) with some variations: (Haydock) "All the houses of the kings of Juda, like the place of Topheth," is added by the Septuagint. (St. Jerome) --- In Grabe they agree with the present Hebrew and Chaldean only rendering, "shall be as a place in ruin, for the defilements in all," etc. (Haydock) --- Of heaven: the moon, etc., 4 Kings 23:12. Josias could not entirely root out this impiety, Jeremias 32:29. His wicked son Joachaz or Sellum, was probably now on the throne, when the prophet went to the potter, etc., Jeremias 18 -- Jeremias 21.
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