South and west of Jerusalem, it was the scene of the idolatrous worship of the fire-god Moloch (2 Chr. 28: 3; 2 Chr. 33: 6; cf. 2 Kgs. 16: 3; 2 Kgs. 21: 6; Jer. 7: 31; Jer. 32: 35), and was afterwards used as a place of refuse (2 Kgs. 23: 10-14. In N.T. times it was called Gehenna, and was regarded by the Jews as symbolical of the place of torment.