This place is very significant in the Bible because this place is used as a picture of
hell.
Now, go, if you would, keep your finger there in Jeremiah 19 and go over to Isaiah chapter
number 30.
Isaiah chapter number 30.
Even in the Old Testament, the Bible uses this place, Tophet, or this place, the valley
of the son of Hinnom, as a metaphor for hell because it was a place where fires would be
burning and where bodies would be consumed by fire, God used this place to picture hell
and what hell is like because hell is a place of fire also.
Look at Isaiah chapter number 30.
We're going to look at the last verse in Isaiah chapter 30, verse 33.
Let me get there myself.
The Bible reads, For Tophet is ordained of old, yea, for the king it is prepared.
He hath made it deep and large.
The pile thereof is fire and much wood.
The breath of the Lord, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it.
So in this verse, Tophet is being used to symbolize or to picture hell.
He's comparing it to hell because Tophet is a place where there's a big, large pile of
wood burning and the Bible talks about how hell is kindled by the wrath of the Lord.
The breath of the Lord, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it.
We know that fire and brimstone are, of course, associated with hell.