← INDEX FONTIUM

2 Kings 23:10

The New Testament’s use of 2 Kings

3 places · 1 kind of echo

The source

He defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the children of Hinnom, that no man might make his son or his daughter to pass through the fire to Molech.

⛓ Read 2 Kings 23 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →

Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.

Echo3

A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.

Matt 10:26-31 ?

Josiah defiles Topheth in the valley of the children of Hinnom so none could pass a child through fire to Molech. Reinforces the Gehenna background as the defiled valley of fire that becomes the figure of final destruction (10:28).

Medium confidence
Matt 23:13-22

"Son of Gehenna" (v15) presupposes the Valley of Hinnom (ge-hinnom), defiled by Josiah, as the topographic origin of the eschatological place of judgment.

Medium confidence
Matt 18:8-9 ?

Josiah's defilement of Topheth in the Valley of Hinnom contributes to the valley's afterlife as a place of refuse and judgment underlying Gehenna. Background rather than verbal source.

Low confidence