Hanun and the inhabitants of Zanoah repaired the gate of the valley; they built it, and set up its doors, and its bolts, and its bars, and a thousand cubits of the wall as far as the Refuse Gate.

Zanoah, Tano, Iluthoth, Maeani,

the king of Libnah, one; the king of Adullam, one;

until they bring the heirs, O inhabitant of Lachish: the inheritance shall reach to Adullam, even the glory of the daughter of Israel.

So Adoni-Zedek king of Jerusalem sent to Hoham king of Hebron, and to Piram king of Jarmuth, and to Japhia king of Lachish, and to Debir king of Eglon, saying,

Bozkath, Eglon,

So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of the Assyrians besieging Libnah; for he had heard that he had departed from Lachish.

Jarmuth, Adullam, Membra, Socoh, Azekah,

And the borders go up to the Valley of Hinnom, behind Jebus southward; this is Jerusalem: and the borders terminate at the top of the mountain, which is before the Valley of Hinnom toward the sea, which is by the side of the land of Rephaim northward.

And the borders shall extend down on one side, this is in front of the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, which is on the side of Rephaim northward, and it shall come down to Gehenna behind Jebus southward: it shall come down to En Rogel.

And he defiled Topheth which is in the valley of the Son of Hinnom, [constructed] for a man to cause his son or his daughter to pass through fire to Molech.

And they have built the altar of Tophet, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters with fire; which I did not command them [to do], neither did I design it in My heart.

Therefore behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when they shall no more say, The altar of Tophet, and the valley of the son of Hinnom, but The Valley of Slaughter; and they shall bury in Tophet, for need of room.

And you shall go forth to the burial place of the sons of their children, which is at the entrance of the Potsherd Gate; and proclaim there all these words which I shall speak to you.

Therefore, behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when this place shall no more be called Tophet, or the fall and burial place of the son of Hinnom, but the burial place of slaughter.

And they built to Baal the altars that are in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to offer their sons and their daughters to King Moloch; which things I commanded them not, neither came it into My mind that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.