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Gehenna

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Gehenna

Another name for hell; in the Old Testament, a valley south of Jerusalem where children were sacrificed to the Phoenician god Moloch and fires burned constantly.
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Nor content with such Audacious neighbourhood, the wisest heart Of SOLOMON he led by fraud to build His Temple right against the Temple of God On that opprobrious Hill, and made his Grove The pleasant Vally of HINNOM, TOPHET thence And black GEHENNA call'd, the Type of Hell.
Paradise Lost by Milton, John View in context
Fines, lost goods, taxes, expenses, loyal charges, salaries, damages, and interests, gehenna, prison, and jail, and fetters with expenses are Christmas spice cake and marchpanes of Saint-John to him
Notre-Dame de Paris by Hugo, Victor View in context
If I tell this man of yours to withdraw the charge against you, you can go to Gehenna for aught I care.
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