Location: Gei Ben Hinom (opposite Birkat HaSultan [the Sultan’s Pool])
Subject: Gei Ben Hinom
Reference: Haftorah of Parashat Tzav, Yirmiyahu Perek 7 Pesukim 31-32
Written by: David Magence
As Yirmiyahu makes clear, Gei Ben Hinom was a place where child sacrifice was practiced. While the Torah abhors any form of idolatry, child sacrifice is the ultimate evil.0
Therefore, in pasuk 32, Yirmiyahu prophesizes that the valley will be known as “Gei HaHarayga” (“Valley of Killing,” in Hebrew a play on words of Gei Ben Hinom).0
Gei Ben Hinom is mentioned in Tanach also as a point on the border between the tribes of Binyamin and Yehuda (Sefer Yehoshua Perek 15 pasuk 8).0
