Ben Hinnom
The lepers' valley near Jerusalem.
Inhabitants or natives
The cured lepers: John the Priest, Uriah, Gioab, Adina.
Description
Valley bordering the south-southwest of Jerusalem. It is one of the valleys where lepers take refuge in the caves. This valley is also known as the city's dumping ground.
At its outlet lies Haceldama (potter's field), purchased by Judas and where he hanged himself.[1] The spring of En-Rogel is also found there, and not far from it, the country house of Caiphas (Joseph), the High Priest.[2]
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"They cross the Kidron, walk along the southern side of Mount Tophet and enter the little valley completely strewn with tombs and filth. There is not one tree or any shade from the sun, which blazes down on this southern side heating the stones of these new hellish terraces where the stinking smell of burning rubbish increases the heat. And inside the sepulchres, similar to crematoria, there are poor bodies, which are wasting away…"[3]
Notable facts
Place of Judas's hanging, not far from Caiphas (Joseph), the High Priest's country house where the plots against Jesus were hatched.
Its name
The Guei Hinnom (Valley of Hinnom), or Guei ben Hinnom, Valley of the Sons of Hinnom, rendered in Greek as Gehenna, is a narrow and deep valley located to the south and southwest of Jerusalem, corresponding to the Wadi er-Rababi.
Where is it mentioned in the work?
GRM 199
GRM 210
GRM 536
GRM 605 GRM 605
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Gehenna (ge-hinnom or Valley of Hinnom). Children were burned there in honor of Moloch. Because of the crimes committed there,[4] its desecration by King Josiah,[5] and perhaps also because of the garbage that was burned there, the Valley of Hinnom became a symbol of sin and eternal punishment.
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Notes and references
- ↑ GRM 605.
- ↑ GRM 535.
- ↑ GRM 199.
- ↑ Jeremiah 32:35.
- ↑ 2 Kings 23:10.