Ben-Hennon — Calmet's Dictionary of the Holy Bible, Complete and Unabridged Calmet's Dictionary of the Holy Bible, Complete and Unabridged
BEN-HENNON, or Ben-hinnon, or Gehhinnon, or Geh-bene-hinnon, the Valley of Josh. xv. 8. 2 Kings xxiii. 10.the Children of Hinnon. It lay South East of Jerusalem1. Some say it was the Sink to Jerusalem, and an emblem of Hell; for which reason Hell is called Gehenna, derived from Gehennon the Valley of Hinnon. See Gehenna. This Valley was likewise called Tophet. See under the name of Tophet.
Augustin Calmet, O.S.B., “Ben-Hennon,” in Calmet's Dictionary of the Holy Bible, Complete and Unabridged,
English translation, Mind of the Church,
https://mindofthechurch.com/works/calmet-dictionary/b/ben-hennon/.
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