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, lies just outside the city of Jerusalem. During Jesus’ time, it was the city’s garbage burner."
You also post this "“Ge-Hinnom (Aramaic Ge-hinnam, hence the Greek Geenna), ‘The Valley of Hinnom,’ lay south of Jerusalem, immediately outside its walls. The notion, still referred to by some commentators, that the city’s rubbish was burned in this valley, has no further basis than
"the biblical words in the
Book of Jeremiah describe events taking place in the seventh century in the place of Ben-hinnom: "Because they [the Israelites] have forsaken Me and have made this an alien place and have burned sacrifices in it to other gods, that neither they nor their forefathers nor the kings of Judah had ever known, and because they have filled this place with the blood of the innocent and have built the high places of Baal to burn their sons in the fire as burnt offerings to Baal, a thing which I never commanded or spoke of, nor did it ever enter My mind; therefore, behold, days are coming," declares the LORD, "when this place will no longer be called Topheth or the valley of
Ben-hinnom, but rather the valley of Slaughter".
[19] J. Day, Heider, and Mosca believe that the
Molech cult took place in the valley of Hinnom at the Topheth.
[20]
No archaeological evidence such as mass children's graves has been found; however, it has been suggested that
such a find may be compromised by the heavy population history of the Jerusalem area compared to the Tophet found in Tunisia.
[21] The site would also have been disrupted by the actions of Josiah "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). A minority of scholars have attempted to argue that the Bible does not portray actual child sacrifice, but only dedication to the god by fire; however, they are judged to have been "convincingly disproved" (Hay, 2011).
[22]
... Jeremiah also included a prophecy that Jerusalem itself would be made like Gehenna and Topheth (
19:2–6,
19:11–14).
...
Rabbinical Judaism (with apocryphal/pseudo religious texts)
Although the actual term [Gehenna] does not occur in the Tanakh or Talmud, it is strictly a [Koine Greek/Alexandrian Dialect] term originated from the
Hebrew [Gehinnom] and used by first Century Christ-followers to depict the literal place of eternal damnation spoken of in [Revelation 21:8] - The Lake of Fire. Gehenna is not mentioned in the Torah. Nevertheless, some rabbinic texts maintain that God created Gehenna on the second day of Creation (Genesis Rabbah 4:6, 11:9). Other texts claim that Gehenna was part of God's original plan for the universe and was actually created before the Earth (Pesahim 54a; Sifre Deuteronomy 37). The concept of Gehenna was likely inspired by the biblical notion of Sheol. The original picture of [Sheol] is not the first century "Eternal Lake of Fire" Gehenna as the place of punishment or destruction of the wicked and does not occur frequently in classic rabbinic sources.
[25] Gehenna is likened to [Sheol]
where the wicked go to suffer when they are judged. The
Mishnah names seven Biblical individuals who do not get a share in
Olam Ha-Ba:
Jeroboam,
Ahab,
Menasseh,
Doeg the Edomite,
Ahitophel,
Balaam, and
Gehazi. According to the opinion of Rabbi Yehuda, Menasseh got a share in Olam Ha-Ba
[26] Midrash Konen places Ahab in the
fifth compartment of Gehenna, as having the heathen under his charge.
Absalom was consigned to the 7th circle of Gehenna;
[27][And according to the
description of Gehenna by
Joshua ben Levi, who, like Dante, wandered through hell under the guidance of the angel Duma, Absalom still dwells there, having the rebellious heathen in charge; and when the angels with their fiery rods run also against Absalom to smite him like the rest, a heavenly voice says: "Spare Absalom, the son of David, My servant."
[28]]; possibly his half brother
Amnon was consigned to the
2nd circle of Gehenna.
[29] Amon of Judah sinned very much but his name was not placed on the list of the kings excluded from the world to come out of respect for his son Josiah; however a midrashic fragment reads: "No sin is more grievous than idolatry, for it is treason against God. Yet even this has been forgiven upon sincere repentance; but he that sins from a mere spirit of opposition, to see whether God will punish the wicked, shall find no pardon, although he say in his heart, 'I shall have peace in the end (by repenting), though I walk in the stubbornness of my evil heart'" (Deut. xxix. 19)."
