HINNOM VALLEY
(Hell)
(Hell)
Valley south and west of Jerusalem that is associated with the fires of Molech, child sacrifice, idolatry, graves, blood, garbage, sewage, and lepers. Jesus used Gehinnom to refer to Hell. Kidron and Hinnom meat at Tophet, site of Molech and very close to the Pool of Siloam. Site of Judas' suicide and Ciaphas' tomb. (more photos: Wiki)
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Hinnom Valley, BD: South and west of Jerusalem, it was the scene of the idolatrous worship of the fire-god Moloch (2 Chr. 28:3; 33:6; Jer. 7:31; 32:35; see also 2 Kgs. 16:3; 21:6), and was afterwards used as a place of refuse (2 Kgs. 23:10–14). In New Testament times it was called Gehenna and was regarded by the Jews as symbolic of the place of torment.
2 Chr. 28:3 : Moreover he (Ahaz) burnt incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and burnt his children in the fire, after the abominations of the heathen whom the Lord had cast out before the children of Israel.
2 Kgs. 16:3 : But he (Ahaz) walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yea, and made his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the heathen, whom the Lord cast out from before the children of Israel.
2 Chr. 33:6 : And he (Manasseh) caused his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom: also he observed times, and used enchantments, and used witchcraft, and dealt with a familiar spirit, and with wizards: he wrought much evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to anger.
2 Kgs 21:6 : And he (Manasseh) made his son pass through the fire, and observed times, and used enchantments, and dealt with familiar spirits and wizards: he wrought much wickedness in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to anger.
10 And he (Josiah) 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.
11 And he took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entering in of the house of the Lord, by the chamber of Nathan-melech the chamberlain, which was in the suburbs, and burned the chariots of the sun with fire.
12 And the altars that were on the top of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the Lord, did the king beat down, and brake them down from thence, and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron.
13 And the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had builded for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, did the king defile.
14 And he brake in pieces the images, and cut down the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men.