Gai benai hinnom
in
Hebrew, which in Greek became Gehenna – an equivalent
of hell. The association may have arisen out of 2
Kings 23:10, which lists the reforms of King Josiah: "He
also defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, that no man
might make his son or his daughter pass through the fire for Molech."
(Cf. Isaiah 30:33 and Jeremiah 7: 31-33