| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - The natural, and indeed almost inevitable, inference from the facts that have been brought out in the foregoing paragraphs - the place at which the sacrifices were offered, the peculiar rite, the time in which the worship first appears - is that the offering of children by fire at the 'Tophet' in the Valley of Hinnom to Yahwe the king was a foreign cult introduced in the reign of Manasseh.
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