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Hinnom

VALLEY OF, called also Tophet, and by the Greeks Gehenna, a small valley on the south-east of Jerusalem, at the foot of Mount Zion, where the Canaanites, and afterward the Israelites, sacrificed their children to the idol Moloch, by making them “pass through the fire,” or burning them. To drown the shrieks of the victims thus inhumanly sacrificed, musical instruments, called in the Hebrew _tuph_, tympana or timbrels, were played; Hinnom is rendered in the installed Bible Names resource as “there they are; their riches.” This unified study connects 5 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.