Bible Location

valley of the son of Hinnom

8 cross references · Modern-day map available

The Valley of the Son of Hinnom is the ravine south and south-west of Jerusalem later associated with Topheth and, in later interpretation, with Gehenna imagery. It is important because it appears in boundary descriptions, cultic condemnation, and prophetic warnings of judgment. First appears in 2 Kgs 23:10.1

Coordinates

31.77, 35.23

First appears

2 Kgs 23:10

AI summary: The Valley of the Son of Hinnom becomes one of the most charged landscapes near Jerusalem. Though it begins as a geographic boundary marker, it later becomes associated with condemned worship and with prophetic announcements of judgment on the city and its people. Because of those associations, the valley's significance extends beyond topography into moral and eschatological imagination. The cross references present it as a ravine where geography, corruption, and warning converge.1

Latitude

31.77

Longitude

35.23

Bible references

8