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Hinnom valley
Hinnom valley A depression just west of Jerusalem where
children were sacrificed in idolatrous rites (Jer. 7: 31), though forbidden by
Josiah (2 Kgs. 23: 10). The Hebrew
Gehenna (= ‘valley of Hinnon’) came to mean
hell (Mark 9: 43, NRSV and REB; ‘Gehenna’ in NRSV marg.).
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The Challenges of Ketef Hinnom
Magazine article from: Near Eastern Archaeology; 12/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...inscriptions etched on silver from Ketef Hinnom (excavated from an ancient burial complex...Gabriel Barkay, leader of the dig at Ketef Hinnom, and his fellow excavators, that they...became clear just how important the Ketef Hinnom inscriptions truly were. For faintly...
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HELL ON EARTH; The scorched rockwalls of a valley below Jerusalem are saturated with the blood of untold abominations. This is the pit, the root of our worst fears.
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 8/29/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...modern concept of that horrific place. This is Jerusalem's Gei Ben Hinnom, the Valley of the Sons of Hinnom. The valley was named for an alien nonsemitic family, the Hinnom clan that predated the First Temple period a thousand years before...
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Fed into the fires of Gehenna
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post; 4/13/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...the landscape. It is identified as the Hinnom Valley. Today it is a lush area lending...was known as the valley of the sons of Hinnom and later the Valley of Topheth. In the...burning. Most notorious in the history of Hinnom is the practice of child sacrifice - placing...
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SCRIPTURE AS TALISMAN, SPECIMEN, AND DRAGOMAN
Magazine article from: Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society; 3/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...supervise a crew in digging a burial cave at Ketef Hinnom "The Shoulder of Hinnom" below St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church in Jerusalem...silver roll" .... Later it would be called Ketef Hinnom amulet I. ... A second silver roll came up in...
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In brief
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post; 5/9/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...of the Arts. Arab kids flock to Ben-Hinnom Valley Over Hol Hamoed, the Nature and...set up challenge activities in the Ben-Hinnom Valley, including a rope bridge, a climbing...accompanied by adults, turned up at the Ben- Hinnom Valley to take advantage of the free activities...
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On the spot
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post; 4/20/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...rosebuds and bright yellow crowfeet, the Hinnom Valley wasn't always this delightful...their children to fires that blazed in the Hinnom Valley. Walk through and above this once...The slope between Mount Zion and the Hinnom Valley is known as the Sambuski Cemetery...
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What sort of Jerusalem?
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post; 5/18/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...immediately beyond the forbidden Valley of Hinnom, as soon as the No. 15 bus returning...Citadel dominated not only the Valley of Hinnom, which literally emanates from it, but...the Gihon spring, where the Valley of Hinnom spills into the Kidron, the creek that...
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Jerusalem in English
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post; 4/11/2008; ; 595 words
; ...Approaching Jaffa Gate via the Ben Hinnom Valley affords sightseers a majestic view...period. 'Gehinnom' means the 'Valley of Hinnom' in biblical Hebrew, and the authors...which took place in the valley." The Ben Hinnom Valley faired little better in recent...
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New road to the Western Wall opened
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post; 7/3/2007; ; 454 words
; ...opposite the Sultan's Pool, alongside the Hinnom Valley, and up to the City of David across...6m. tourist promenade in the historic Hinnom Valley, which for years had been filled...the road and the tourism project at the Hinnom Valley will create a "tourism continuity...
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A bustling gateway to history
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post; 6/17/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...The Ottoman wall, in fact, skirts the edge of the Ben-Hinnom Valley and follows the same basic course as the Jerusalem city...It took 2,600 years for Jerusalem to push across the Ben-Hinnom Valley. Between 1948 and 1967, of course, that Ottoman wall...
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Hinnom
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Hinnom , valley, W and S of Jerusalem. Its ill repute in the Bible emanated...Molech at Tophet . In later Jewish literature it was called Ge-Hinnom [Heb.,=valley of Hinnom] and in the Greek of the New Testament, Gehenna. A place for...
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Hinnom, Valley of
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
Hinnom, Valley of (gey-hinnom): see GEHENNA .
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Hinnom valley
Book article from: A Dictionary of the Bible
Hinnom valley A depression just west of Jerusalem where children were sacrificed in idolatrous rites (Jer. 7: 31), though forbidden...
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Gehenna
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology
...the Christian New Testament for hell, the place of destruction. The word is derived from the Hebrew ge and hinnom, the Valley of Hinnom — originally a valley in Palestine where the Hebrews passed their children through the fire to Moloch...
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Hades
Book article from: A Dictionary of the Bible
...them the word ‘ Gehenna ’ in a metaphorical rather than the original geographical (‘valley of Hinnom’) sense, is used in the Greek (e.g. Mark 9: 43, 48). ‘Hades’ (Rev. 20: 13, 14...
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