And 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. (2 Kings 23:10)
A valley west and south of Jerusalem, the southern part of which later came to be regarded as a place of destruction and abomination. This was due to the horrors of its human sacrifices, to the final pollution of it by Josiah, and to the fact that it later became the city’s refuse dump. In NT times the Valley of Hinnom, Heb. Ge Hinnom, was used as the symbol of the place of destruction of the wicked. In the following references the word “hell” is in every case a translation of the Greek geenna, a transliteration of the Hebrew Ge Hinnom: Matt. 5:22, 29, 30; 10:28; 18:8, 9; 23:15, 33; Mark 9:43-48; Luke 12:5; James 3:6.