Tophet] A place, in the valley of Ge-hinnom, on the South side of Jerusalem, Joshua 15:8. &Joshua 18:16. where the idolatrous Jews burnt their children to Moloc: Lev. 20. 2. 2 Chron. 28. 3. and 33. 6. so called of the drums or tabers that they beat upon, to drown the shreiks and cryes of the sacrificed children: made sometime a place of common buriall, Jer. 7. 31, 32. &19. 11, 13. a type of hell, Matthew 5:22. &18. 8, 9. Mark 9. 43, 44. See Chap. 66. 24. of old] Heb. from yesterday. 1 Samuel 10:11. for the king] For Senacherib, Chap. 37. 38. whose army also some suppose to have been destroyed in that valley, Chap. 37. 36.