Valley of Slaughter, Jeremiah 7 27- Jeremiah, when you tell them what I have to say to them, they will not listen to you; when you call to them, they will not answer, however, 2- Stand at the gate of the Lord's house and there proclaim this message to all the people of Judah who come through to worship the Lord: 5&6- You must really change your ways and your actions. Deal with each other justly: do not oppress foreigners, do not oppress orphans, do not oppress widows, do not shed innocent blood, do not follow other gods (which is to your own harm) 23- Walk in obedience to all I command you. 9- Instead what have you done? you steal, you murder, you commit adultery, you commit perjury, you burn incense to Baal, you follow other gods. 17&18- In the towns of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem, children gather wood, fathers light fires, and women knead dough and make cakes to offer to the Queen of Heaven. 19 -Am I the one you are provoking? Are you not rather harming yourselves? Is this not to your own shame? 21- Go ahead people of Judah, add your burnt offerings, your other sacrifices and eat the meat yourselves! 13- While you were doing all these things I spoke to you again and again, but you did not listen; I called you, but you did not answer. 24- You did not listen or pay attention. Instead you followed the stubborn inclinations of your evil hearts. You went backward and not forward. 28- You have not obeyed me. You have not responded to my correction. Truth has perished; it has vanished from your lips. 25 - I sent you the prophets, my servants. but you did not listen or pay attention. 26- You have been more stiff-necked and you have done even more evil than your ancestors. 30&31 - You, the people of Judah, have done evil in my eyes. You have set up their detestable idols in the house that bears my Name and have defiled it. You have built the high places of Topheth in the Valley of Ben Hinnom were you burn your sons and daughters in the fire—something I did not command this, Such an evil would not even have entered my mind. 12 - In the place in Shiloh where I first made a dwelling for my Name you will see what I did to it because of the wickedness of the people of Israel. 15- No again, I will put you out from my presence, just as I did all your fellow Israelites, the people of Ephraim. 20- My anger and my wrath will be poured out on this place, on man, beast, on the trees and on the crops. It will burn and not be quenched. 32- Beware, the days are coming, when people will no longer call it Topheth or the Valley of Ben Hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter, for they will bury the dead in Topheth until there is no more room for them.
Spare the trees, the fish and the stars in the night sky. Also spare the clouds and the blue sky. Your people are contrarians, forbid goodness and they will reform themselves out of spite for your authority.
%% Jeremiah 8. WHY THEN is the health of the daughter of my people not restored ? [Because Zion no longer enjoyed the presense of the {Lord} ]